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TIL that the Turing Test is a test that can determine when technology has become indistinguishable from real humans, and ChatGPT 4.5 beat it 73% of the time.

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4k0xX TIL that boxing rounds were changed from 15 to 12, after the match between Ray Mancini and Kim Duk-koo, which would result in the death of the latter. Mancini was heartbroken after the fight and considered quitting boxing.
OoB4L TIL animals would face trial and execution if they killed humans in medieval times. The state would even pay the costs of a lawyer for the animals.
kO1KB TIL that the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution allows the Vice-President, supported by a simple majority of the 15 other members of the US Cabinet, to remove the US President from office and assume the Presidency himself immediately.
P1lXg TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.
pYO9Z TIL about the "cocktail party effect"—our brain's ability to focus on one conversation in a noisy room. This ability lets us tune into specific voices while filtering out background chatter, and even pick up important words like our name even when we are not paying attention.