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TIL Baby X , the virtual baby from the Soul Machines lab : A digital simulation of a baby with several system layers based on an AI model that will interact with humans and will have to learn it all from scratch, like a real baby.

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NXY8E TIL The Potlatch Ceremony, where Native leaders gave away or destroyed valuables during a great feast, was banned from 1885 to 1951 in Canada yet persisted in secret during that time
roQw TIL A man can divorce his wife in Islam simply by saying ‘Talaq’ ('I divorce you’) three times to his wife.
8oOL TIL that Len, the band that recorded “Steal My Sunshine,” had a $100,000 budget for the music video and spent so much of it on alcohol that they broke the hotel service elevator trying to lift it all.
WkbE8 TIL In 1920, Poland, which regained its indepdence two years earlier, basically stopped the outbreak of a new world war by itself, which was started by the Bolshevik Russia who wanted to introduce communism in Western Europe by force.
loM05 TIL that to this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge that there was an Armenian genocide in WWI, claiming that the 1.5 million were merely relocated.