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TIL: Banana is a herb, a fruit, antimatter emitter, Radiation emitter, and a unit of scale

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N7wK8 TIL "Earth Simulator" is one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet with nearly 35 trillion operations per second and it's used to model Earth's Climate
yMBJ TIL When executives from game developer Red Fly met with George Lucas they were instructed to never say “No” to him, told not to mention The Force Unleashed protagonist, Starkiller (George would only refer to him as “that guy”) and, most importantly, not to tell George how the Force works.
N7Pw6 TIL the FBI followed Einstein, compiling a 1,400pg file, after branding him as a communist because he joined an anti-lynching civil rights group
QJD16 TIL that a man by the name of Roger Williams was the galvanizer for Jeffersonian Democracy (ie separation of church and state) and was a staunch proponent for fair dealings with Native Americans. He was a devout man who saw organized religions as bastardizations of faith and God.
7Nvx TIL in the 50s, teenagers having a stable monogamous relationship (“going steady”) was considered edgy and frowned upon by parents and the church as amoral. Instead they encouraged their kids to go out with different people every weekend. (read column on the right)