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TIL in 2010, The U.S. Air Force made the fastest computer in the US Defense Department with 1,760 PlayStation 3's

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YPor TIL There was a massive residential scheme that failed in Florida leaving a massive system of canals and barren roads that you can easily see in Google Maps that is now called Picayune Strand State Forest.
GYl7j TIL that the USA does not have an official language at the federal level. English is only the official language of 32 states.
6nWm TIL that in the Great Depression in the 1930’s, Canada had zero bank failures compared to over 9,000 failed banks in the USA.
bvZa TIL Richard Owen (who created the word Dinosaur) exploited his crippled peer Gideon Mantell, by claiming ownership and renaming his discoveries. After Mantels suicide, Owen wrote his obituary calling Mantell a mediocre Scientist. He then had Mantells spine removed, pickled, and stored.
d8dL9 TIL studies have found coffee drinkers (those who drink 3-5 cups per day) have a more “efficient” brain than those who don't drink coffee. MRI scans found coffee drinkers have quicker connectivity in the cerebellum, the right precuneus, and the right insular.