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TIL China Uses AI Camera to Capture Jaywalkers and Publicly Shame Them

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QJgjM TIL of Marcella LeBeau, a WWII Army Nurse who served in the wake of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. She received the French Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits. The Native American woman is 98 and still active in her community in South Dakota.
BK7r TIL when humans are embryos, the first thing we do is form into a doughnut. The doughnut hole becomes our entire digestive tract.
7QaX TIL that in 1999, an aide to the Mayor of Washington DC was fired for using the word “niggardly.”
dDJ4E TIL I learned of the existence of Intercourse, PA. A small, yet charming town of ~1500 whose sign posts are the frequent target of thieves, for whatever reason. Located just 15 minutes from the quaint Blue Ball, PA, and 40 minutes from the Pleasureville Historic District.
VMegQ TIL that dragon fruit grow on cacti