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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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0dJWp TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It rotates incredibly slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun in around 225 Earth days.
10gD TIL The Stroop effect (e.g. the printed word “blue” colored in red) was used to help detect Russian spies during the Cold War.
dprB TIL That Britney Spears’ debut single “…Baby One More Time” peaked at No.1 in every country it charted in
R5Pll TIL that the founder of Lipton Tea, Sir Thomas Lipton, was a lifelong bachelor who had a secret relationship with his shop assistant, William Love
M7yk0 TIL of Esmie Tseng, a top student and pianist, whose parents imposed impossible standards. She once was grounded for a 96% on an exam. When punished, she was forced to stand naked in a corner. In 2005, at 16 yrs old, she snapped, fatally stabbing her mom. She was tried as an adult and served ~6 yrs.