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TIL that since the beginning of time no two deck of cards have been in the same order after randomly shuffling them.

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69LxW Today I learned that someone got to run Windows XP at 90 KHz or 0.09 Mhz. Who is equal to the CPU clock rate of a Intel 4004 (The first cpu in the world)divided by 7. This CPU was released in 1971. The Intel 4004 had 760KHz of CPU clock rate.
v109x TIL that Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to win an Oscar (and whose birthday is today), was forced to sit separated from her white co-stars at the 1940 Academy Awards
RBgw TIL that in Japan, in 1997, a Pokemon scene with flashing lights induced mass seizures in children across the country. Reporting on the incident, the nightly news replayed the offending scene, prompting yet MORE seizures.
0w5dv TIL in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, Nikola Tesla once invented a remote controlled boat he thought could end warfare.
x0OD TIL MTV fired Russell Brand several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios