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TIL Google once created an AI and when asked what the meaning of living is it replied “to live forever”.

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LQRgQ TIL the day after Robin Williams' suicide was announced, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw the highest number of calls in a single day in its history with 7,500 (twice the normal number).
nedbP TIL of Tommy Cooper who died while performing on stage... while the audience laughed
kOXOe TIL at 8 minutes 42 seconds, American Pie by Don McLean is the longest song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100
p86RA In Delhi, air quality index (AQI) levels are usually a severe 200 on a good day (anything above 25 is deemed unsafe by World Health Organization). During peak pollution periods last year they soared well into a life-threatening 900 and sometimes off the measurable scale. But as Delhi’s 11m registered cars were taken off the roads and factories and construction were ground to a halt, AQI levels have regularly fallen below 20. The skies are suddenly a rare, piercing blue. Even the birdsong seems louder.
voZB TIL that Hitler came to power in a democracy with a highly liberal constitution, and in part by using democratic freedoms to undermine and then destroy democracy itself.