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TIL: that the Chinese government has an AI survelliance system that uses +20M cameras and facial recognition to track citizens behavior and monitor criminals. They officially named it: “Skynet” - because of Terminator...!

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6E57J TIL In Thailand, it was considered a capital offense punishable by death if someone touched the queen. in 1880, The queen drowned when her royal boat capsized on the way to the Palace. The many witnesses to the accident did not dare to touch the queen while she was drowning.
XB1D TIL: The US govt still provides up to 300 pre-rolled marijuana joints to the 4 surviving patients from a now defunct program started in 1976
v1RE8 TIL that Lebron James refuses to pay for apps or music and only uses his phone when he's on wifi
XELM8 TIL Researchers have found that Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population in the world. They compared the genetic profile of 170 Nunavik Inuit with "everyone possible" from Asians, Africans, and Europeans to North and South Americans
a4x9 TIL that scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn’t cause cavities.