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TIL there’s and abandoned, unfinished town in Turkey with 732 Disney-style castle homes.

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OGGLg TIL in 2010 the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1760 PS3s. It was the 35th most powerful supercomputer in the world at the time and used 10% of the energy of comparable systems.
x48B TIL in 1956 a man appeared on the popular TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” who had witnessed Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14th, 1865
xpA7 TIL Billy Joel gives away all of his front row tickets to random people in the cheap seats so that the front row isn’t always just wealthy people
XEO1P TIL that the eagle featured on U.S. currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the U.S. Mint. He died in 1836 but, like many animals whose admirers just can't let go, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.
1WQd TIL that two 6-year olds were suspended from school for playing cops and robbers and forming their fingers into an imaginary gun