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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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kPK7 TIL that a clause in the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery “except as a punishment for a crime” so that prisons could use inmate labor.
7VZ TIL that 60 percent of the US deficit by 2019 will be a result of the Bush-era tax cuts.
mroO TIL that the company that makes the Etch a Sketch was on the verge of bankruptcy when it agreed to let its drawing toy be featured in Toy Story 2. Although the scene featuring an Etch a Sketch was only 12 seconds long, it resulted in a 20 percent sales bump that helped to save the company.
wLXV7 TIL There is a disease where carbohydrates are converted to alcohol in a person's digestive system, setting them drunk whenever they consume carbs
QNJQX TIL Emirates and Qatar Airways fly nonstop from Dubai and Doha to the US West Coast (San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles), coming within a few degrees of latitude of the North Pole