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TIL that Up 95% of All Rebates Offered to Consumers for Purchasing Products Go Unclaimed

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4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"
KOrma TIL of 2020 CD3, a near-earth asteroid and temporary satellite of earth expected to break free in May 2020
e0aek TIL of a tribe of nomadic divers that have evolved larger spleens allowing them to hold their breaths for up to 13 minutes and catch fish more than 200 feet underwater
BPby TIL that in 1902 a volcanic eruption flattened an entire city, killing everyone but two people. One was a prisoner who only survived because he’d stabbed a policeman and had been put into solitary confinement. He was horribly burned, was pardoned of his crimes and became a circus attraction.
166g8 TIL Spirited Away lost its record of highest grossing animated film in Japanese history to Dragon Slayer- Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train after 19 years in 2020.