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TIL An expedition to the Titanic accidentally recovered “a wedding band and part of a human finger”, confirming that human remains still exist on the wreck.

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9YaxX TIL that in the history of AI research there's a time period called as AI winter, it is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. A few scientists survived that. And currently we're in the AI spring, where AI is doing wonders.
B0PL TIL More money is put into incarceration than education
jAga TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams
awXKy TIL that people who drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles are called Hotdoggers and only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible to be Hotdoggers.
QJLkL TIL of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Winston Churchill had food diverted away from Bengal to Europe, resulting in as many as four million Bengali deaths. His response was that Indians 'breed like rabbits anyway.'