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TIL the 5 largest power stations in the world are all hydroelectric

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j6p4M TIL about Mortimer Taube, a pioneer in information and library sciences, whose "Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of Thinking Machines" (1961) and its analysis/critique of "thinking machines" is still relevant to today's discussions involving artificial intelligence
5nND TIL that in the USA, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
kOk45 TIL Yoshi’s real name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas and Mario isn’t a Homo Sapien, he’s Homo Nintendonus
l80G TIL that the shooter at the Texas University massacre had an IQ of 173 at the age of six. He also left a letter which said to use his life insurance policy to pay of his debts, as well as to donate his brain to research to prevent “further tragedies”
nJ5W TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard