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TIL that caribou is simply the North American name for reindeer.

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QP1L TIL that a gold $20 coin deflected a bullet that saved Lt. George Dixon’s life, and forever more became his lucky coin. The coin was found 137 years later in the sunken wreckage of the Confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley
11GW TIL that the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky liked to insult people by calling them ‘spherical bastards’, because “they were bastards no matter which way you looked at them.”
m1k0y TIL there have been multiple "AI winters" which are periods of reduced funding and interest in the field following a period of hype in overstated AI capabilities.
ZEPG TIL There have been lawsuits against God. One suit, filed by State Senator Ernie Chambers in 2008, was eventually thrown out because the “Almighty was not properly served due to his unlisted home address”
p50N TIL That despite voting for prohibition as a U.S. Senator, President Warren G. Harding kept a fully stocked bar of alcohol in the White House during his administration in the 1920’s.