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TIL that a survey in 2014 showed that 57% of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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l79RB TIL the US army had a robot with a teddy bear face designed by VECNA.
boJp TIL Sand Tiger Shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.
LkmNv TIL that placebo (substance with no therapeutic value) is used not only in pharmacy to test drugs, but also in surgery to test the effect of intervention.It's called sham surgery, when surgical intervention omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. There was 53 sham surgery cases.
6EdwW TIL Facebook created two AI chatbots to converse with one other, only to shut them down when they began speaking in a language they had created for themselves.
LkZLm TIL that in other countries New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, etc. have their own exotic “American” food isles in grocery stores alot like how America has Mexican and Asian isles in their grocery stores (I lived in America for all of my life obviously)