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TIL, in 2000, Onel de Guzman, a 24-year-old computer science student from the Philippines, programmed a malware called ILOVEYOU,one of the world's most destructive computer-related disasters ever,which caused over 50M infections within 10 days, costing ~$8bn in damages and ~$15bn to remove the worm.

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69yQY TIL that Waffle House has a unique way of staging orders in their kitchens called the Magic Marker System that does not require a written order. This involves placing items like ketchup packets, napkins or tomato slices at specific locations on the plate to serve as a visual order for the cook.
WRNN TIL Sleeping Beauty’s deep sleep was caused by a splinter of flax in her finger, and during her sleep she was raped by a king (her father was a Lord). She gave birth to twins while enchanted and one sucked on her finger to remove the flax which woke her up.
RGE8 TIL “Confirmation bias” is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.
9YvmG TIL Napoleon's brother (Joseph Bonaparte) lived in New York City and Philadelphia, but later settled in New Jersey. Some Mexican revolutionaries reportedly offered to crown him Emperor of Mexico in 1820, but he declined.
ep9ZD TIL earlier this year Chat GPT passed the Turing test. “Participants in a blind test judged OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model, which powers the latest version of ChatGPT, to be a human “significantly more often than actual humans”.”