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TIL there’s a computer cluster at Carnegie Melon that’s been running nonstop since January 2010, teaching itself facts from the internet

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0dR8M TIL your skin gets slippery when you accidentally touch bleach because you just made soap by breaking down top layer of your skin
v0Ar TIL of Mercy Ships, cruise ships converted to hospitals that float the African coast treating patients at no cost.
loJEa TIL after the big bang only hydrogen and helium along with trace amounts of lithium and beryllium were created. The other 86 elements found in nature were all created by nuclear reactions inside stars.
rNpA1 TIL that Microsoft uses SAP software, despite competing with SAP with its own ERP software (Microsoft Dynamics)
PYkWg TIL Nan Madol, “Ghost City of the Pacific”, megalithic basalt stone structures weighing 800,000 tons, standing 25 feet high and 17 feet thick covering 200 acres built on the coral reef 1,000 years ago in Pohnpei, Micronesia.