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TIL Full-screen games monopolize the graphics card, so alt-tabbing requires the game to give that control up and the OS to take it back and start rendering the desktop again.

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OGM56 TIL that white holes are theorized to exist. Nothing can escape a black hole, and nothing can escape a white hole.
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