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TIL that the US Air Force connected 1,760 PlayStation 3’s together to build supercomputer

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ZLyG TIL that Albert Einstein’s inability to speak until a late age actually caused him to use “visual thought experiments”, such as imagining trains and elevators, while working on physics problems. This is considered to be one of the reasons behind his success.
d8Rp9 TIL that American neurologist Walter Freeman drove around the US performing ice pick lobotomies in a van he coined the lobotomobile.
l7PZB TIL: There are two cemeteries surrounded by runways at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, GA
7r5oP TIL coffee was "Satan's drink" before Pope Clement VIII baptized it
dDRpB TIL that the founder of the soft-serve chain Fosters Freeze had acquired the rights to open the first Dairy Queen franchise in California, but discovered strict dairy industry laws in the state prohibited using “Dairy” in his business name.