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TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost

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nWwlW TIL that AI systems have developed their own languages to communicate with each other, a phenomenon known as emergent language, which researchers are still striving to fully understand.
ADeel TIL that Daft Punk's "Touch" and "Beyond" are collaborations with Paul Williams, who also cowrote The Muppets' "Rainbow Connection". His 1974 movie, Phantom of the Paradise, inspired their robot helmets.
LQ6W0 TIL of Berserk Llama Syndrome. A dangerous behavior resulting from being coddled by humans at a young age.
yVDm8 TIL Roman Dodecahedron artefacts are excavated across western and northern Europe- small, hollow, metal objects comprised of 12 pentagonal faces with holes in the centres and protruding knobs in the corners. More thank 50 theories have been scientifically published, but their purpose remains unknown
GArZJ TIL sharks have an "off-switch" — if you gently flip them upside down, they go into a trance-like state called tonic immobility.