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TIL as of 2019, 2 million Americans do not have running water in their home.

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VlvG TIL The Japanese Giant Hornet is woven from the fabric of nightmares: It’s the size of your thumb and sprays flesh-melting poison in your eyes that also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you to death
P195w TIL in 2016, Microsoft released an AI chatbot designed to learn conversation by interacting with humans. It was shut down in less than a day after it began praising Hitler.
9ebm TIL in 1970, a bomb exploded in the Senate Chamber of the Louisiana State Capitol building and left a pencil embedded in the ceiling, where it remains to this day.
16kRO TIL: Actress Maggie Smith was struggling with breast cancer and undergoing chemo treatments during the filming of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, but was determined to finish shooting because she didn't want to disappoint her fans.
WkDvo TIL Beethoven dedicated his 3rd symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte. Then changed the name to "Eroica" one he heard Napoleon crowned himself emperor