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

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AKOx TIL that in 1916, Nikola Tesla invented a unidirectional flow valve with no moving parts, by making the flowing substance resist its own movement.
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nej79 TIL of the Orgone Accumulator, a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless 'healing energy'. The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."
GARd7 TIL that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1990
jNWbR TIL About a 17 year old kid that was given an old iPhone for free, and using the "barter" section of Craigslist made 14 trades, ending with a Porsche. Along the way he traded for newer phones, computers, motorcycles, and eventually cars.