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TIL that because almost all cheetahs were wiped out by the last ice age, modern cheetahs are all practically genetic clones of each other.

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4XMwa TIL: Traditional chess engines – rely on thousands of rules and heuristics handcrafted by strong human players that try to account for every eventuality in a game. AlphaZero takes a totally different approach, replacing these hand-crafted rules with a deep neural network .
00Qv TIL that there’s a town in Texas called Earth, and it’s the only place on Earth officially named Earth
V8Ok TIL that Tiki Torches were invented by Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a native Texan, not the Polynesians.
E4od TIL ‘Darling’ means 'favourite minion’.
PYXLe TIL of autistic savant Mark DeFriest, aka Houdini of FL. Arrested on a minor charge as a teen, he got a life sentence from escapes/attempts & pranks. He made a zip gun from a toothpaste tube, replicated keys from memory. In & out of prison since 1978, 27 yrs in solitary; he's in prison to this day.