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TIL in 2010, the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1700 Playstation 3s.

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N77E8 TIL the Miss South Carolina teen who became an internet meme for her incomprehensible answer contemplated suicide after her pageant flub
69nvJ TIL in the earliest version of the Star Wars screenplay, Han Solo was an alien of the Ureallian race with green skin, enormous gills and no nose.
N7mXM TIL about Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) which causes individuals to be temporarily or permanently perceived to be speaking with a foreign accent
44J5 TIL the fastest matter ever detected was the Oh-My-God particle, detected over Utah in 1991. It was going so fast that it had as much energy as a baseball travelling 60 MPH and is 50 times more energy than produced in the LHC
x61m5 TIL Chinese checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 and called 'Chinese' as part of a marketing scheme