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TIL AMD named their processors Ryzen because they couldn't get a trademark for Zen which is the name of the architecture.

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xV5p0 TIL that in 1956, Elvis Presley got his Polio vaccine in front of the press. As an influential figure, this act helped raise vaccine rates from 75% to 90%
b9Y09 TIL before becoming an iconic thriller, Stephen King's first novel "Carrie" was rejected by 30 publishers, causing him to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it and urged him to resubmit it.
41ww TIL Myopia is extremely uncommon among nonhuman primates but researchers can easily induce it by depriving infant monkeys of normal outdoor lighting levels. Outdoor lighting is usually about 100 times more intense than what you get inside
WkO14 TIL that it was reported in 1987 a person committing suicide with four bullets in his own head, several other suicides were reported with two or more shots in the head, in medical journals
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