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

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xV9X1 TIL due to a 1700% increase in bank robberies during the Great Depression, the Texas Bankers Association created the Dead Bank Robbers Reward Program, paying $5000 to anyone who killed a robber during the crime, no questions asked.
WJ9d TIL that Ancient Egyptians believed the universe was formed by the god Atum masturbating, and that the flow of the Nile was controlled by the frequency of which Atum masturbated.
b67A0 TIL that one of the few positive health effects of smoking is a drastic reduction of a person's risk of thyroid cancer. According to a Korean study of the health records of over 10M people, smokers have a 36% lower risk of thyroid cancer. Smoking and heavy drinking reduces one's risk even more.
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
XEoO6 TIL that if the atom was the size of the observable universe, then the theoretical ‘string’ in string theory would be the size of a tree.