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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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0dXkA TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which posits that the term was popularized by the CIA to discredit conspiratorial believers who opposed the Warren Commission Report that concluded JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman.
YjA7 TIL that during the Great Flood of 1993, 23 year-old James Scott removed sandbags from an Illinois levee in order to strand his wife on the other side of the river so that he could keep partying. He received life imprisonment for “intentionally causing a catastrophe”.
nNob TIL That the over-stimulation often caused by modern society can result in depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders by building a tolerance to chemicles like dopamine, serotonin, and melatonin.
grYKb TIL that almost immediately after its completion, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper began to deteriorate in the monastery that held it. During World War 2, it would have been destroyed had it not been covered in mattresses and sandbags in case the monastery was bombed.
KOeO9 TIL that, since 1945, the only artists who could have - at one point - claimed to have the biggest selling album of all time were Vaughn Meader (The First Family), Carole King (Tapestry) and the BeeGees (Saturday Night Fever), before Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1984.