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TIL Nazi physicists rejected Einstein's theory of relativity as "Jewish science"

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p8YBb TIL the Supreme Court ruling of "Oliphant v Suquamish" states that non-Native Americans who commit crimes on tribal land cannot be arrested by NatAme law enforcement. Who gets to make the arrest depends on the ethnicity of the criminal or the victim. This resulted in many crimes going unpunished.
j6gXv TIL in 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory built the Condor Cluster, a supercomputer composed of 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles. At the time, it was "about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world".
m1r1R TIL that when Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’."
xWW7 TIL Chef Boyardee was founded by restaurant owner Hector Boiardi in 1928. The idea originated when customers began asking Boiardi for his spaghetti sauce recipe. Ten years later he opened a factory and named his product “Boy-Ar-Dee” to help Americans pronounce his name correctly.
GAoaE TIL Missing Post Office, an artwork by Japanese artist Saya Kubota, is a "post office" where undeliverable letters are collected. Addressees include deceased individuals, future descendants, first loves to whom writers were unable to express their feelings, themselves, and long-time favorite items.