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TIL Nvidia is developing self-driving car systems

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Brb0x TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.
VMmrG TIL ancient Rome had a Great Religious Corporation that arranged feasts and public banquets at festivals and games.
x6Npo TIL that Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet W. B. Yeats, won a silver medal for Swimming in the 1924 Olympics - not for the sport, but for a painting titled "Swimming".
b6Wp9 TIL shipbuilders often place "Sacrificial Anodes", which is metal nodules made of easily-reacting metal like zinc, to "force" the Anodising corrosion to happen on these "throwaway" spots rather than on the main steel hull of the ship
awXgy TIL about Ambroise Paré, a barber surgeon (he was both) who discovered that a mixture made of egg yolk, oil of roses and turpentine was more effective in treating war wounds than boiling oil, which was the standard treatment method at that time.