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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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WNxX TIL that on August 7th 1994 in Oakville Washington, mysterious gelatinous blobs began falling from the sky that induced illness in a number of people. The blobs were analyzed by scientists and found to contain human white blood cells with no nuclei. The source of the blobs was never uncovered
ep6Yk TIL Serbia produces peanut butter-flavored "Cheetos". They are called Smoki by Stark
yQx9J TIL The Epic of Gilgamesh is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature and the second oldest religious text.
78ok7 TIL of Pájaro Verde, a toxic moonshine beverage concocted in Chilean prisons with the ingredients consisting of sugar, rice, rotted fruits and also includes things such as turpentine, paint thinners and paint. There have been cases of prisoners mixing their feces in it to aid in fermentation.
Y787B TIL Sugar Rushes aren't real they are a myth.