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TIL that Microsoft has its own version of Linux. CBL-Mariner is used by the company's Azure cloud computing service.

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Anaw TIL: The length of a second is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.”
Z8leG TIL the legend of Isidas, a Spartan hero who was praised for defending his home but punished for risking his life as he didn't don his armour and thus needlessly risked the life of a Spartan. (Plutarch, Aelianus)
oB0AE TIL: As of 2012 there is still an active witch hunting unit in Saudi Arabia. In 2009, 118 people were charged with witchcraft and by 2011 there were 9 bureaus in the country to combat sorcery. The US has been accused of having sorcerers.
NXGZP TIL of Ernst Haeckel a German scientist who in 1914 was the first person to call The First World War, The First World War.
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.