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TIL Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on the golden girls

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R7Oy6 TIL in 2018 a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food.
R5K6l TIL that a boy saw 17 doctors over the course of three years for chronic pain he was experiencing, but none were able to find a diagnosis that explained all of his symptoms. His mother then provided a list of his symptoms to ChatGPT which ultimately provided them with a diagnosis.
9YJxp TIL The British inventor of the quicksort algorithm, Sir Tony Hoare, also created the null reference and called it his "billion-dollar mistake ... has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes ... probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years".
9YjY7 TIL of Matelotage, a homosexual or platonic same-sex union among sailors, in particular pirates, in the 17th & 18th century. "Matelots" would share their income, and inherit their property in death. They would protect and fight alongside each other in battle and act in the other's interest.
Lk0Ap TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.