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Til: There used to be real human remains in Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride

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R5b49 TIL that the most powerful supercomputer in the year 2000 (the IBM ASCI White) cost the 2022 equivalent of $189 million and ran at 7.226 teraflops. The 32-Core variant of the Macbook Pro in 2022 costs $3,499 and has a peak performance of 10.4 teraflops.
R7Qj TIL more people have orbited around the moon (24) than have pitched a perfect game (23)
KOay4 TIL Kansas is scientifically proven to be flatter than a pancake
4kBJJ TIL when the Japanese emperor reclaimed power from the shogunate in 1868, the losing side fled to Hokkaido and declared a republic modeled on the United States
neRx7 TIL that a very large telescope in Chili is officially called “the Very Large Telescope.”