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TIL That a Quantum machine performed a very specialized computation in 200 seconds that would taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to solve.

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R5Nv4 TIL Final Fantasy II & III were finished in a motel room in Sacramento after one of the main programmers, Nasir Gebelli, was forced to leave Japan because of an expired work visa while they were in development, so SquareSoft (Square Enix) just moved the rest of the development staff with him.
0dkbM Today I learned that Tigger's iconic "TTFN" catchphrase was ad-libbed by Paul Winchell at the suggestion of his wife.
KEPG TIL - Freddy Mercury was so ill with AIDS when he recorded “The Show Must Go On” that Brian May didn’t think he could do it. Mercury slammed some vodka, said “I’ll fucking do it, darling” and killed it in one take.
1nRO TIL that a religion has sprung up around the philosophy of The Dude in The Big Lebowski. I’d say more, but I’m going for the whole brevity thing.
yjaw TIL Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.