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TIL a New Mexico judge came up with the electronic ankle monitor from reading a Spider-Man newspaper comic strip in 1977

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WEE9 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 years to the day apart.
VMjNk TIL about Cher Ami, a pigeon serving the US Military in WWI, who despite being shot through the breast, losing a leg and being blinded in one eye, successfully delivered messages that saved hundreds of US Soldiers. She died shortly after and is now on display at the Smithsonian
nWwbd TIL that, in 1940, the British government offered Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in exchange for Ireland’s entrance into the Second World War.
780lL TIL that in 2017, an AI developed by Facebook created its own language to negotiate and communicate more efficiently, using shorthand phrases humans couldn’t understand. Researchers had to shut it down because the AI diverged so far from English, it was no longer interpretable
O6ng TIL Beethoven, after the first performance of Symphony No. 9, had to be turned around to receive the audience’s roaring applause due to his near complete deafness.