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TIL There is a supercomputer called Kraken.

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LQvpV TIL in 1965, a bus traveling to Ankara collided with a truck carrying nitric acid. The collision caused the acid to spill, and panicked the passengers. They evacuated the bus and suffered burns ln their feet. 17 people melted to death after jumping into puddle to save theirselves in distress.
l7jaA TIL that Powdered sugar is highly flammable!
kO0xg TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
yV7nV TIL Chris Rock did a comedy sketch "revealing" OJ Simpson's hypothetical confession a decade before the novel "If I Did It".
VDj0 TIL Harry Houdini wrote a book in 1909 called “Handcuff Secrets” in which he revealed many of the tricks behind his famous escapes.