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TIL Cold directly influences the results of therapy for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia and is one key to deminiaturization of the hair follicle.

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P1kQO TIL Microsoft released the AI chatbot Tay (short for "Thinking About You"), designed to mimic a 19-year-old American, on March 23, 2016. It became a PR disaster when it learned offensive language from trolls, causing Microsoft to shut it down after just 16 hours and sparking debates on AI ethics.
X64Q TIL the woman who founded Mother’s Day later tried to have it abolished because—by 1920—it had become too commercialized.
e0Mvg TIL The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive the human ear is we could scale up, so in order to detect a minimum of 1 newton (0.2 pounds) of force, an ear drum would be roughly the entire surface area of England.
bvOj TIL that Mozart wrote an intentionally bad piece of music to emulate the style of an incompetent composer.
1aPkd TIL: Archaeologist Alexander Peev was executed by firing squad in 1943 on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. It was actually an ancient inscription he wanted Russian archaeologists to help him interpret. The text remains undeciphered.