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TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.

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8J6L TIL an A.I. bot was designed to learn how to win at games like Super Mario & Tetris. Eventually the A.I. learned the best way to not lose would be to pause the game forever.
1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
GAWvQ TIL that "thylacoleo carnifex", known as "marsupial lion", was an Australian apex predator that weighed up to 130 kg. Thylacoleo went extinct as recently as 46 thousand years ago
9Yen7 Today I learned that conservationists recycle Wimbledon tennis balls as predator-proof shelters for Harvest Mice (The mice you see pictured sleeping in tulips).
v11Mx TIL That Canada has an official way to fold it's flag and it's different from the US method. It ends in a rectangle instead of a triangle.