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TIL The US Department of Defense created a supercomputer using 1,760 PS3 consoles. Compared to other supercompuing systems at the time, it cost 90-95% less to build and required only one tenth of the power to operate

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VM6WB TIL medical bankruptcies make up 66.5% of all bankruptcies in the United States
neQLP TIL That a printer could not be found to manufacture Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the United States. Instead, editor Ann Beneduce located a printer in Japan that was able to produce the book.
XNAE TIL that after seeeing Elvis play at a concert in 1957, 15 year old Jimi Hendrix became a lifelong fan, during the concert itself he wrote down the entire line-up of songs he heard Presley sing that night and would play Elvis songs for his friends as an adult.
LQjyv Today I learned that Pronghorn aka the "American Antelope" is not an Antelope at all, but it's own species that is more closely related to the giraffe and the okapi than anything else!
dgP7 TIL that a lottery winner of £1 Million in the UK spent £500,000 over 18 months in 22 countries, glugging champagne, buying designer clothes and sleeping with least 150 women; then invested the rest and more than made back all the money he spent.