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TIL no voter in India has to travel more than 2km to reach a polling station, even remote voters in the mountains or deep in the jungle

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9dE7 TIL a Nepalese Sherpa climbed to the summit of Mount Everest from base camp in just over 8hrs.
4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"
woywP TIL All 3 of Antoine Greizmann’s (French soccer player) kids were born on the same day but in different years. 8 April 2016, 2019 and 2021.
o6R8 TIL After 20 months of war and a 13 month siege, the Numantians (old Spanish civilization) chose to burn their city and die free rather than live and be slaves to the Roman Empire.
LQy5d TIL that AI can determine with a high degree of accuracy if fingerprints from different fingers belong to the same person - but it remains a mystery as to how it does this...