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TIL all of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run on Linux

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Oo4b7 TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".
jppv TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.
W7Jk8 TIL Childhood trauma can speed biological aging.
Lkwep TIL that the Milgram Experiment, in which participants believed they were shocking people, was flawed. Many suspected that the shocks were fake. Subjects who thought they were truly shocking others were much more likely to defy the experimenter and refuse to proceed.
Z8A1G TIL that red grapefruits were created by growing grapefruit trees next to radioactive material, mutating their DNA to make them more desirable