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TIL Current Gen. M.2 NVMe SSDs are about as fast as last gen DDR2 Ram

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4WBw TIL Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a meeting room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings.
d84Gd TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.
kOPl4 TIL the Japanese words for wrist and ankle literally translate into "hand neck" and "foot neck"
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
VXjp TIL that the best selling mystery novel of all time, written by Agatha Cristie, was originally titled Ten Little Niggers. It sold over 100 million copies.