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"Reddit Facts 2-25\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. It's possible to win Monopoly in nine dice rolls.\n\nThe odds of it happening are extremely small, but the shortest possible Monopoly permutation goes like this, according to a Notre Dame professor, who discussed it with NPR:\n\"One player moves around the board very quickly, to buy Boardwalk and Park Place, and places houses on them. And the other one ends up drawing a Chance card that sends them to Boardwalk, and they don't have enough money to pay the rent with three houses, and the game is over.\"\nImage courtesy of Mark Strozier.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Scientists have designed a language to communicate with alien civilizations.\n\nThe artificial language called Lincos is designed to be understood by any intelligent life form. By transmitting a \"dictionary\" of pulse patterns that establish universal concepts like natural numbers and arithmetic, the syntax can then be used to express complexities like comparison and propositional logic.\nInvented by a Dutch mathematician in 1960 and refined for decades, it was never beamed into space until 1999, when Canadian astrophysicists found a reliable way to target nearby stars. As of this writing, there have been no alien RSVPs.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, J. Paxon Reyes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller was 10 times richer than today's richest person.\n\nThough Rockefeller died in 1937, the personal wealth generated by his company Standard Oil far surpasses anything attributed to a single person to date.\nIn dollars adjusted for the current decade, he died with anywhere from $392 billion to $663.4 billion. By comparison, the world's current richest man (Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim) has a net worth of a paltry $69 billion.\nMany Redditors were quick to point out that Rockefeller made his jillions before modern income taxes and mature American anti-trust legislation, allowing his company to dominate the oil market with comparatively few regulatory hurdles.\nImage via Time Life Pictures/Getty.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Scotch tape lets you see through frosted glass.\n\nThis YouTube video might blow your mind.\nRedditor AllHailScience explains:\n\"Frosted glass is made by sandblasting or acid washing tons of small abrasions into the surface, causing the light to scatter in different directions. The adhesive on the tape fills in most of these abrasions and allows the light to again pass through the glass with less distortion.\"\nImage courtesy of Flickr, mondays child.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. The DoD built a super computer out of 1,760 PlayStation 3s.\n\nIn 2010, the U.S. Air Force hacked together 1,760 PS3 processors and 168 general purpose processors to create one of the most efficient super computers of its day.\nDubbed the \"Condor Cluster,\" it can calculate 500 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS) using one-tenth the power of a comparable CPU. That's a lot of TFLOPS for the low, low price of just $2 million - the money the DoD spent soldering PS3 guts together.\nThe Cluster has been put to work analyzing super high-resolution imagery, and can probably play Call of Duty on max settings without lag.\nImage courtesy of Cleveland.com/Department of Defense.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis week's edition of Reddit Facts is brought to you by the letter M and the number 663.4 billion."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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