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TIL the US Air Force connected 1,760 PlayStation 3’s together to build supercomputer

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XE4AQ TIL that not only did the Choctaw nation donate during the Irish Famine but they also donated to the Shell to Sea campaign.
9YEKB TIL Saint Augustine of Hippo almost married a 10 year old heiress when he was 31. He had to wait 2 more years for the legal marriage age of 12, but became a Catholic Priest before the marriage could happen.
Y707B TIL according to a report, the media shows ageing as a societal burden, with the elderly described as a “grey tsunami”, “demographic cliff” and “demographic timebomb”. Often the elderly are depicted as villains, unfairly consuming too many of resources
0wa5A TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson owned a water-surfing car and used it to prank his advisors and friends.
5AJp TIL a woman in France received a rather substantial phone bill of 11,721,000,000,000,000€ (6,000 times the GDP of France itself). The phone company suggested she pay it off in multiple installments and only admitted their error after further pressing.