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TIL that the US Air Force built a supercomputer comprised entirely of PlayStation 3s

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64Xm TIL that due to the fact that only 1 out of 50 subscribers to porn sites are women, some billing companies will automatically flag an account as fraud if a female name was used to register
xVYrD TIL that the gorilla, our close ape relative, has a bite force of 1,000 pound-force that can snap any bone in the human skeleton (900 pound-force to break a femur). In comparison, the bite force of a human being is at a mere 296 pound-force.
0Dyj TIL 3 years ago Craig Cobb white nationalist/Neo-Nazi went on a talk show to speak about his new white only town project but, the show decided to test his DNA to see just how “pure” he was and he turned out to be 14% Sub-Saharan African making him mixed race.
W5lX TIL a common Shrew’s metabolism is so high, it could starve to death in mere hours
RJwj TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.