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

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dln9 TIL that after instituting blind auditions, taking careful measures to avoid knowing anything about the applicants other than their musical ability, the top five orchestras in the US tripled the number of female musicians they hired.
N7GkP TIL that half the rice grown in California is the offspring of a mutant strain created in the early 1970s by radiation breeding
yYXX TIL that conservationists in South Africa are infusing a special red dye into the horns of live rhinos. The mixture renders the horn completely useless to poachers trying to sell it commercially, and is also toxic for human consumption.
9Y0LD TIL that before he died, FDR proposed a "Second Bill of Rights," which included the right to food, housing, clothing, education, medical care, and recreation. He considered this vital to American freedom and security.
R9rw TIL The first presentation on a cure for erectile dysfunction happened when a urologist pulled out his erect penis in the middle of his presentation at a urology conference.