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TIL elephants call and respond to each other by name

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QJM5L TIL There's a micro-generation called "Xennials" for those born between 1977 and 1985. These people grew up with an analog childhood and a digital adulthood
b6B1Q TIL the Game Boy Color had an official rewritable cartridge for downloading games, and it was only discontinued in 2007.
oR4k8 TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.
6WgY TIL that aspartame, the artificial sweetener, is made from genetically modified E.coli poop
5V0Xk TIL the largest verified size of a captive Kodiak bear is for a male that lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. He weighed 966 kg (2,130 lb) when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22, and according to the zoo director, he likely weighed close to 1,089 kg (2,400 lb) a year earlier.