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TIL that Cyberdyne, the company responsible for the genocidal robots in the Terminator, is a real company that creates artificial robotic limbs.

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WkxoN TIL the Popsicle Index is a quality of life measurement coined by Catherine Austin Fitts as the percentage of people in a community who believe that a child in their community can safely leave their home, walk to the nearest possible location to buy a popsicle, and walk back home.
Bond TIL: A 3GHz CPU takes roughly 0.33 nanoseconds to perform a simple equation. 0.33ns is to 1 second as 1 second is to 95 years.
epy5n TIL The current year in North Korea is 113. This is because they use the Juche calender and year 1 started on the birthday of Kim Il-Sung (April 15th 1912).
dZy9 TIL there are hundreds of 1000-year-old underground tunnel systems in Bavaria, and nobody really knows who built them or what they’re for.
1m5W TIL Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Savings time, except a large reservation in Arizona does, except another smaller reservation inside it doesn’t