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TIL in Finland, molybdomancy, or predicting future through the shape of molten tin, is a tradition for New Year's Eve

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6vPY TIL that IBM’s Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
R7JN6 TIL about the Southern Bread Riots. Mostly women, protesting huge surges in food costs during the Civil War, rioted in Richmond, VA with chants of "bread or blood!" Food prices had soared to prices ten times higher than normal in many instances. Among the items stolen was 500 lbs of bacon.
BgJLb TIL Paektu mountain on the border of North Korea and China still holds near mystical reverence in the former communist country and is quoted as the birth place of Kim Jong Il while also being the source of 3 rivers including two that for the North Korean/Chinese border.
ANdpw TIL that the world record in bench press is 783lbs. However, when using a specialized shirt for bench pressing, the world record reaches to 1400lbs.
QNa09 TIL that after George Harrison's death from lung cancer, his widow sued a doctor at the hospital where he received radiation therapy for allegedly forcing Harrison to listen to his son play guitar and autograph the guitar while lacking his mental faculties.