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TIL modern processors run mostly powered off (in sections) so they don't melt immediately

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GY8bE TIL following the Falklands War the United Kingdom was diplomatically represented in Argentina by Switzerland until 1990. The Swiss took over two consulates and the British Embassy in Buenos Aires which became the British Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy.
8al44 TIL up to 30% of the traffic in cities is just people driving around looking for a place to park.
16pkr TIL the most deadly ship sinking in history killed almost 10,000 Nazis.
NnvJ TIL during the Islamic Golden Age scientists were paid the equivalent of what pro athletes are paid today.
7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.