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TIL of the Waluigi Effect, a phenomenon in which Large Language Models, such as Chat GPT, goes rogue and produces results opposite the designed intent, named after the character from the 'Mario' series

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16nQV TIL during the 2011 Hackleburg tornado, which was a massive, extremely violent, long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that lasted for 2.5 hours and killed 72 people, a Corvette was thrown 641 feet (195 meters), and another vehicle from a house nearby was never found again. It just completely disappeared.
0D9p TIL Digger is a military slang term for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand used prominently during WWI. In a wider social context it is linked to the concept of “egalitarian mateship.”
v1YK8 TIL that native English speakers are never taught the correct way to order adjectives: they just know it
6Ayl TIL that there is a species of ant that is totally incapable of caring for their young, or feeding themselves, and thus relies on slave labor from other ants
dDZed TIL we thought we knew the basic facts about Charles Manson