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TIL Matthew McConaughey’s Lincoln commercials were only minimally scripted, and was influenced by McConaughey not wanting them to “sound like an advertisement.”

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lLoA TIL that Henry Heimlich, the man who created the Heimlich Maneuver, is still alive
OoEA4 TIL The financial industry is rushing to embrace artificial intelligence to help in areas including trading, investing and automating interactions with customers. Most banks are at least piloting AI in equity research, but with varying degrees of commercial success at this point
pWLp TIL that prosecutors who hid evidence that would have cleared a man who was sentenced to death were not able to be punished according to the Supreme Court
VBplZ TIL that a fan-made music video for the song Sail by AWOLNATION has 370 million views, over 100 million views more than the official music video
JaZ1 TIL that since the Chernobyl disaster, the area inside the ‘exclusion zone’ has become home to hundreds of wild animals such as deer, owls, boars, bears and beavers.