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TIL that Police in Chicago and the UK are developing algorithms, software and techniques make Minority Report-style pre-crime a reality. The UK has software called PredPol in use already by at least 14 police forces.

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d88Nj TIL: Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, stopped in 1998 after the director of the movie “Burn Hollywood Burn” (a film about a fictional director actually named Alan Smithee trying to disown his movie) used the pseudonym himself.
NX7Jb TIL the average full-time worker earns approximately $2.7 million over their entire lifetime
9wOvD TIL that the first woman elected as a state senator in the US was a Mormon who practiced polygamy and won the election by defeating her own husband as her opponent.
9P4r TIL that an executive defeated Bill Gates 35 out of 37 in a video game, when they met again a month later Gates “won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.”
VBovB TIL Snoop Dogg had produced several pornographic movies in the beginning of the 2000's