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TIL A Stanford psych study showed that unnecessarily using big words actually makes you sound dumber

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M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.
J9N1 TIL as an April Fool’s joke, Audi once advertised a car with a built-in rice cooker in Japan
Vy5G TIL that Rockstar Games hired a private investigator to locate the remaining relatives of one of the members of the Skatt Bros. in Utah in order to obtain license rights to the song “Walk The Night” for use in Grand Theft Auto IV
VMODZ TIL there are now TPU microprocessors. CPUs are ones and zeroes, GPUs are threes for doing triangles to make polygons and TPUs are fours for processing matrices for AI deep learning ten times faster.
1ayEd TIL that in Innu mythology, Matshishkapeu ("The Farting God") is the most powerful spirit and is even more powerful than the "Caribou Master.".