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TIL that modern smartphones have 5,000 times the processing power than the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 1980s.

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b6X79 TIL that of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George of England, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the three rulers who contributed immensely to the outbreak and spread of World War I, the first two were grandchildren of Queen Victoria, and the third was her grandson-in-law.
6Exd7 TIL that a study of deaths on the show Game of Thrones found that the probability of a character dying within the first hour after first appearing on screen was 14%.
RRP6 TIL “Ye olde” is pronounced “The old” (not “yee old”). “y” - pronounced “th” - was an English printer’s abbreviation/substitution for the Runic alphabet’s thorn (þ), a character also used in Medieval English.
m10eE TIL There is a community in Japan that is closely tied with the North Korean regime. They operate 60 of their own schools with portraits of the North Korean leaders in every classroom as well as banks and a university.
e0kd5 TIL a lawyer used his will for practical jokes. He gave a house to 3 men who hated each other, stocks in a brewery to preachers, shares of a racetrack to each ministers "except Spracklin, who shot a hotelkeeper", and gave the rest to whoever had the most kids in 10 years.