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TIL Royal Bank of Canada provided $3M in funding to expand artificial intelligence and data analytics programs, with a focus on answering big questions for the good of society

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Xka8 TIL that when he was thirty years old, Mark Twain wrote an illustrated children’s book called “Advice to Little Girls”. Lost and unknown for generations, it has been rediscovered. It is a charming and irreverent little book.
J1wWj TIL that Flash memory got its name because the process of erasing the device called to mind the flash of a camera.
Br8rD TIL: Cats are known as both Invasive Species AND Superpredators due to their ability to rapidly wipe out entire species of small fauna, only surpassed by humans
rRgPx TIL about John C. Malone, the largest private landowner in the United States, possessing upwards to 2.2 million acres, which is more than twice the size of Rhode Island.
BgvWk TIL That if Earth Were the Size of a One Foot Diameter Globe, All Water Contained on Earth Would Amount to About 14ml, or Half a Shot Glass.