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TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.

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D19jP TIL that mathematicians have proved a majority-rule democracy can be forced to vote in favor of any set of policies by constructing a series of intermediate policy sets, each of which a majority of voters will prefer to the preceding policy set.
81BK TIL “Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.”
J5nk TIL La Cucaracha is about a cockroach that dies because it can’t smoke weed.
Yp1kx TIL there were proposals in the 17th century to use an inverted exclamation point (¡) to signify irony in a sentence, a simpler version of the internet’s “/s” for sarcasm
V7em TIL CERN Data Centres process over 1 petabyte of data everyday! upto 10gb a second!