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TIL Sydney, Australia has an annual duck fashion show :)

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wxEY TIL Thomas Jefferson is accredited as the creator of the swivel chair, the first of which he created and used to write much of the Declaration of Independence.
R5ZW8 TIL that in 2018, an AI developed by MIT was intentionally trained using only dark, disturbing content to see if it would develop "psychopathic" tendencies. Named "Norman" after Norman Bates, the AI then interpreted neutral images as violent scenes, highlighting how data shapes AI behavior
W77X4 TIL 99.9% of the human body is made of just 11 elements
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
mYAo TIL that the Matrix was so heavily influenced by Anime “Ghost in the Shell” on a scene by scene basis, that they actually asked permission from it’s creator before creating the matrix. Here is a video comparison.