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TIL that the United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.

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JYyg8 TIL actor George C. Scott declined his best actor nomination for "Patton" in 1970, and had the decency to let the Academy know that he would refuse the award if he won. He won anyway, and reportedly called the Oscars a "two-hour meat parade."
OG6ae TIL: Ants invented agriculture 50-60 million years ago, right around the time that the first primates appear in the fossil record. These ants cultivate a domesticated fungus for food in underground greenhouses and tend to it through watering, weeding, and pest/disease control.
l71vV TIL an eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.
16kDr TIL That in the original cut of Nas "Hate Me Now" music video that aired only once, showed Nas and Diddy being crucified. Diddy, a devout Catholic, barged into the offices of Nas' former manager, Steve Stoute, with several bodyguards, and struck Stoute over the head with a champagne bottle.
X04l6 TIL the map of a Fly Brain closely matched the architecture used in current AI models