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TIL Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito were childhood friends. Their parents owned a hair salon together.

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6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
jNpkp TIL that the two 'M's of M & M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.
Z8gDo TIL Ancient European hunter-gatherers were using garlic mustard seeds to give their foods a peppery kick as far back as 6,000 years ago, making it the oldest evidence of spice used for cooking.
Y7kPP TIL that the Tysfjorden splits Norway's road network into two. There is no way to go between the northern and the southern parts of the mainland without using a ferry or going through Sweden.
nBk9 TIL that in the urine of schizophrenics and those with severe autism there is an elevated amount of bufotenine- a hallucinogenic chemical also known to be found in psychoactive toads.