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

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wLaK8 TIL Osama bin Laden had counter strike installed on his computer, a "fairly extensive" porn collection that the US government refused to release, and books with 9/11 conspiracy theories.
78OpM TIL that the origin of the term ‘BullShit’ dates back to the 17th century. “Bull", meaning nonsense, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British and American slang and came into popular use during WWII. "bull" from the Old French bole, meaning "fraud, deceit".
KOeO9 TIL that, since 1945, the only artists who could have - at one point - claimed to have the biggest selling album of all time were Vaughn Meader (The First Family), Carole King (Tapestry) and the BeeGees (Saturday Night Fever), before Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1984.
PO6V TIL during the dot com bubble in 1999, Mark Cuban was prevented from selling his Yahoo stocks due to a lock-up clause. So, he sold insurance against the share price rising, and used the profits to buy insurance in case the share price fell. In total it cost him nothing, and made him a billionaire.
rjbW TIL that most of the modern global poultry industry relies on a single breed of chicken from a farm in Connecticut that won the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” competition in the late 1940s and early 1950s.