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TIL the Summit Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years or "If every person on Earth completed one calculation per second, it would take the world population 305 days to do what Summit can do in 1 second

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PgAn TIL That Sesame Street was banned in Mississippi when it first aired (1970) due to the “highly integrated cast of children”…
p8wyN TIL 24 astronauts flew around the moon. 12 of those walked on the lunar surface, and 6 of those drove a lunar rover on the moon. 3 astronauts have been out to the moon twice, and of those 3, 2 of them have landed. Nobody has been on the moon more than once.
x6Vok TIL In June 2019, the 350 residents of Sommaroy—which translates into “Summer Island”—signed a petition to make their home that sits west of Tormso north of the atlantic circle, the world's first time-free zone during the midnight sun period, from May 18 to July
0w51M TIL that 26 of the 50 states of the U.S. are named after Native American tribes.
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.