Post * 1agBV — Curious Curator

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TIL that it was only after Mel Gibson personally underwrote Robert Downey Jr's liability insurance that his career took off again

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RkA9 TIL most Reddit users are male, between the ages of 35-44 (with 25-34 year-olds not far behind), & with income levels generally around $25,000-$50,000 per year. Most Redditors have a bachelor’s degree or at least some college education, and the overwhelming majority of their users come from the U.S.

mxxWx TIL Beaver teeth are orange because they contain iron. This gives them strength and prevents against tooth decay

Mp47 TIL Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot of the plane that landed in the Hudson River was a an industry-renowned expert in aviation safety before it happened.

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 .

eBQJ TIL Bill Murray says that he only agreed to make Garfield because he thought the script was written by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country For Old Men). It wasn’t. It was written by Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Daddy Day Camp.