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TIL letter 'w' is the Japanese version of LOL

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OkLL TIL that in 2012, the CEO of Lenovo received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did this again in 2013.
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.
b9BY4 TIL that Manta Rays live in groups of friends that are not necessarily family, a behavior very rare in nature
AN1Yn TIL New Zealand was removed from the US' "Nuclear Umbrella" in 1986 as punishment for advocating global disarmament, which means that any country could strike them without facing retaliatory (nuclear) strikes.
AEkx TIL that the brains of transgender people more closely match the brains of the gender they identify as than the one they don’t