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TIL that Google’s Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is ‘to live forever’

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0wjn5 TIL that Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts killed in the Columbia tragedy, knew Steve Morse of Deep Purple and had even taken the band’s “Machine Head” album to space with her on the mission. Morse wrote a song called “Contact Lost” as a tribute to her.
OGJEe TIL There is a Chinese poem entitled "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ", with 92 words - all of which are "shi". The poem becomes comprehensible because Chinese is a tonal language - where the same word can be pronounced with many different tones. Supposedly, the poem is more sensible in Cantonese than Mandarin
R0P9 TIL that it is difficult for whales to get cancer because the tumors have to grow so big to harm it and the tumors will get tumors killing the first one.
MeBAV TIL: Sylvester Stallone has spent 50 years writing and re-writing a screenplay about 'Edgar Allan Poe'. The script pre-dates Rocky and is the actor/writer/director's passion project.
R5lZl TIL that pilots can choose to re-land a plane halfway through the runway if they aren't happy with the landing.