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TIL: As of March 2023, Frontier is the world's fastest supercomputer.

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X0gWj Til no child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922.
QNxla TIL of the water fluoridation controversy. During the 1950s and 1960s, conspiracy theorists claimed that adding fluoride to water was a communist plot to undermine American public health.
vP457 TIL: Domino's Pizza's famous "30 minutes or less" guarantee only ran for 9 years, from 1984 to 1993, but it had a tremendous impact on popular culture.
dKK7 TIL Male Bed Bugs inject their sperm into the female (& male) by puncturing the body wall as the female has no natural opening for reception of his sperm.
rRlKy TIL that the most common recurring minor character on Seinfeld is not Newman, or Frank Costanza. Appearing in 109 episodes, Ruthie Cohen is the cashier at Monk's Cafe, and appears in the background in more than double the amount of episodes as the next minor character (Newman, with 48).