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TIL a shark’s heart is under it’s tongue.

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9YKop TIL Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for biomedical research of protein folding. Started in 2000, it now has over 100,000 users and is the fastest supercomputer in the world with over 470 petaFLOPS of computational power. The research has produced over 223 peer reviewed articles.
OGe96 TIL Getting Tattoos in South Korea is Considered a Medical Procedure Done Only by Doctors
ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.
kK5B TIL Hugh Laurie wangled himself a Burger King ‘crown card’, entitling him to free food for life, by pretending he already had one.
l7BD1 TIL Chicago based street gangs such as the vice lords and gangster disciples recruited many native Americans into their gangs