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TIL George Washington considered burning down all of NYC

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86QG TIL CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
gMoM4 TIL that sausages are older than the Bible. The oldest works of the Bible were written 3,400 years ago while the first-ever reference to sausages was in the 4,000 year old texts from Mesopotamia.
WkM5B TIL that 71 percent of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible to join the military, primarily because they are too overweight or too poorly educated, or they have a record of serious crime or drug abuse.
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
wLvlE TIL some malls in Canada are using facial recognition technology in their directories to track and identify shoppers without notification