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TIL in 2018 it was discovered that for 6 years the city of New Orleans and Palantir Technologies, a data mining firm, worked together with the NOPD to secretly create it's predictive policing technology without the knowledge of even top city officials.

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Y77wW TIL when Kurt Angle won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1996, his opponent Abbas Jadidi tried raising his arm believing he'd won, leading Kurt to believe he lost. The referee then raised Kurt's hand, and Kurt got more emotional than otherwise cause he genuinely believed he'd lost.
pYGRQ TIL the fictional plane ‘Darkstar’ featured in the opening of Top Gun: Maverick was so realistic on screen that China moved its satellites to monitor it, even though it doesn’t exist.
oXjK TIL a man drove over 600 miles to listen to the Cubs win the World Series on his fathers grave. Keeping his word on a promise made decades ago
LkB80 TIL in the movie The Godfather, the horse head from the scene where Jack Woltz, played by John Marley, wakes up to find it lying in his bed, is from an actual dead horse. During rehearsals a fake one was used, and Marley wasn't told beforehand, so his screams during the actual shot were genuine.
P1LbL TIL The heat of the Earth's core has nothing to do with pressure. Rather, most of it is energy produced by radioactive decay and the rest is trapped heat remaining from when the planet formed.