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TIL that Harvard tried to incorpate MIT.

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gM6g9 TIL that when simple AI was taught to play Tetris, the best solution it found was to pause the game just before the screen filled up so it would never lose.
1ALV TIL in 1946, a Georgia Tech Graduate Student and amateur photographer rushed to the scene of a hotel fire and snapped a photo that would would win him a Pulitzer. The photo is of a woman jumping from the 11th story to escape the flames, and led to new safety regulations across the US
PYxOO TIL that in 1970 the fifa ball was changed to black and white (from traditional brown) so the viewer watching in b/w TV's will be able to see the ball clearly,even though the vast majority of footballs were then still brown.
eRMb TIL that Harry S Truman was the only U.S. president in the 20th century who didn’t earn a college degree.
j6pxv TIL that Pete Absolon, the Rocky Mountain director of NOLS, was on a climb in Wyoming's Wind River Range, and died after being struck in the head by a rock due to other hikers throwing rocks off over a mountain cliff for fun.