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

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wLnEJ TIL in 1947, chess grandmaster Miguel Najdorf played a record 45 simultaneous games of blindfolded chess. He had no way of contacting any friends or family who might have survived the Holocaust, and broke the record in hopes they might see the news coverage. The record stood for 64 years.
m1vAp TIL that A UK High Court judge ruled in 2005 that it would be illegal for the British Museum to return artworks looted by the Nazis to a Jewish family, despite its willingness and moral obligation to do so. However, the law has changed since.
0NO5 TIL The term “kosher salt” derives not from its being made in accordance with the guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah (nearly all salt is kosher, including ordinary table salt), but rather due to its use in making meats kosher by removing surface blood.
OGVgR TIL the creator of Microsoft DirectX said that the "radiation" logo and the internal name "The Manhattan Project" was an intentional reference to atomic bombs, since they wanted to dethrone the Japanese from their dominance of the video game industry
6EJdY TIL that most of the 9/11 hijackers had no idea that they were on a suicide mission. Evidence shows that the majority likely believed that they were taking the planes hostage as a means of leveraging the release of Al-Qaeda prisoners. Only the men trained to fly the planes knew the truth.