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TIL Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”

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d8ejE TIL that Pythagoras had a phobia of beans. Ironically, it was his fear of beans that caused his death. When attackers chased him into a field of beans, he refused to enter and was killed instead.
e0mXE TIL Western Australia crowd sources emergency medical assistance through an app that alerts all qualified users within 500m of an emergency and provides a map with the location of every registered defibrillator in the state.
Z8aN4 TIL hammerhead sharks have never killed a human. there have only been 17 unprovoked shark attacks by hammerheads since records begin in 1580, all non-fatal!
gMNwb TIL the worlds largest bee that was thought to be extinct, was just recently found to still be alive
9YB56 TIL that before Ian Fleming used "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for his book about a magic car, the original phrase referred to the permission slip soldiers needed to leave the barracks to visit local brothels during WWI.