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TIL that Tom Hanks and Mr. Rogers are actually sixth cousins.

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N7PM8 TIL that a person working in the telecom industry made an AI bot to prank telemarketers that talks to them until they catch on as he was annoyed with telemarketing calls. He created an algorithm that says, "Hello? hello?" to trick the agent to thinking they have reached their target.
7rv4p TIL that in 1995, a man received a "check" for $95,000 as junk mail. Jokingly, he deposited it into his account. The "check" met all of the legal criteria for a check and was cashed.
eBnD TIL Gregory Scarpa, Sr. despised African-Americans so much, that he refused to get blood from a blood bank following an ulcer. He ended up contracting HIV from another italian mobster who donated his blood to Scarpa.
p8Z5N TIL a long lost 1926 Japanese silent horror film was rediscovered 45 years later, when its director found a print in his own storehouse in 1971. Nearly a third of it is still missing.
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