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

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KNWJ TIL of Michael Cicconetti, a judge in Ohio who uses what he calls “creative justice”. He sentences guilty defendants with unusual punishments, such as forcing a woman who abandoned her kittens to spent a winter night outdoors.
XlMr TIL in 2009, an abusive litigant sued a man for $30k for selling him a $40 printer on Craigslist, claiming it was broken. The case lasted for 6½ years and, as of 2016, may still be on-going.
NXMNE TIL that upon baseball player Ted Williams' death his body was frozen in liquid nitrogen in two different pieces
BYok TIL that the Hanwha Eagles, a South Korean baseball team, has robot fans. These robot fans are controlled by real fans who can’t attend the game. The bots can cheer, chant, and do the wave.
4bO6 TIL that in 2010 starving bears in nothern Russia dug up coffins and ate the human corpses inside