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TIL: Anti-communist South Vietnam used a song written by a communist as their national anthem without his permission

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QJyep TIL an AI named Cyc became confused by a story of a man shaving. The AI understood that people do not contain any electronic parts, but considered the man holding the electric razor as one entity, and asked if he was still a person while he was shaving.
yA8 TIL the FBI keeps a publicly-available list of every gang name they come across, indexed by state, and some of the names are hilarious.
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Y7Mlv TIL that Stanley Kubrick came in secret to the set of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), to advise on lighting.
9YN5m TIL in 2004, two Brazillians were arrested in Miami International, after one, asked about his air pump, said that he was carrying a “bomba” (Portugese for “pump”). This, complete with an “it might explode” comment from the other Brazilian, led to both being imprisoned.