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TIL it took 40 minutes for Supercomputer K to simulate just 1 second’s worth of 1% of the activity of the human brain.

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yQgrM TIL of a sport named archery tag, a dodgeball-esque game that use foamed tipped arrows
6EYMm TIL: Howard Buffet, son of Billionaire Warren Buffet's, has donated untold millions in wildlife conservation, with his largest donation being $24m in 2014 to Kruger National Park in South Africa to purchase military grade helicopters and reconnaissance drones to track illegal poaching
N0gE TIL Guillermo del Toro (a fan of both Portal games) secured permission from Valve Co. to use the original voice actress for GLaDOS as the AI of the mech suits in his newest movie, Pacific Rim.
Q7mk TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.
D40e TIL that the day Keith Richards was shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End he was so drunk that the film’s director had to prop him up in order to shoot his scene.