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TIL There are chatbots made using AI that replicates a dead relative.

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pY9rN TIL about H. Barry Jacobs, a Virginia business man who, in 1983, planned a business to buy and sell human organs on the open market. This led to the creation of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which outlawed selling organs for profit in the United States.
b98Lj TIL in Heavyweights (1995) that Lars was not simply being a dick when pushing the kids in the water. He was forcing them to swim and exercise.
RMml TIL the collective term for cardinals (the bird) is a Vatican
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug
PRDw TIL that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children recommends that children OF ANY AGE should not be permitted to use public restrooms alone.