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TIL Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in the puzzle game “2048,” achieving a high score of 839,732 and beating the game in only 973 moves without using any undos

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eplDb TIL that Elaine Stritch auditioned for the role of Dorothy Zbornak from The Golden Girls and almost got the role. Stritch went in for a reading, but cursed during her audition—and irked the writer and lost the part to Bea Arthur.
DQn4v TIL by simply paying off the Mexican Navy, bucheros, or the local illegal fisherman, have reduced the smallest dolphin in the world, vaquita marina, to a number of 8. Many believe the animal is just a myth.
J1y8V TIL Diving bell spider is the only species of spider that spends almost all its life underwater, including resting, catching and eating prey, mating, egg laying, and overwintering. It only briefly surfaces to replenish its oxygen supply.
0w7mj TIL that famous Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune featured in a Mexican movie called Animas Trujano. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962
l7X6a TIL that plastic waste has now formed new types of rocks (plastiglomerates, pyroplastics, and plastistones) in the most remote parts of the planet that will be part of the Anthropocene fossil record as evidence of the influence of humans