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TIL that if you're a communist - or were in the past 10 years - the US prevents you from becoming a citizen

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69LxW Today I learned that someone got to run Windows XP at 90 KHz or 0.09 Mhz. Who is equal to the CPU clock rate of a Intel 4004 (The first cpu in the world)divided by 7. This CPU was released in 1971. The Intel 4004 had 760KHz of CPU clock rate.
neypb TIL Some countries have one-day weekends, Friday only in Djibouti, Iran, Palestine, and Somalia. Saturday only in Nepal. Most other countries have two-day weekends.
xKOo TIL that Stephen Hawking claimed that the egg came before the chicken.
jnkj TIL that in the 1930s, parents used to keep their babies in cages on their windowsill in order to make sure they got enough air and sunshine in tall apartment buildings.
XErWk TIL about "The Demon Core", a mass of plutonium that was responsible for the death of two scientists on two separate occasions.