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TIL the band Neon Trees took their name from the lit palm trees on the signs at In-N-Out Burger. It was only later learned that bass player Branden Campbell's father installed those same signs

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J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
e66k TIL Hackers made a “sniper rifle” that can hack bluetooths from over a mile away.
19yW TIL that there is a man who has made a living for over 30 years startling people at Fisherman’s Wharf in California. He reportedly makes $60,000 “in a good year.”
vPQdB TIL While divorce had been briefly legal during the Second Spanish Republic (1932), Franco began to overturn these laws by March 1938. Divorce in Spain thus remained illegal till 1981.
l7ayB TIL of the "Ouroboros Effect" - a collapse of AI models caused by a lack of original, human-generated content; thereby forcing them to "feed" on synthetic content, thereby leading to a rapid spiral of stupidity, sameness, and intellectual decay