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TIL that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was created by scientists John McCarthy, Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956.

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l4A5 TIL about Jewish ballerina Franceska Mann who in 1943 while being forced to disrobe at Auschwitz for delousing distracted a SS guard, stole his pistol and shot him dead.
AWMx TIL that the probability of human extinction by Molecular nanotechnology weapons or Superintelligent AI before year 2100 has been put at 5%.
XEM7j TIL that AllSpice is not a mixed spice. Also known as Pimenta, AllSpice is made from the dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica and originates from Central and South American. It was named ‘Allspice’ by the English because it combined the flavours of clove, nutmeg and cinnamon
b9rEE TIL some flutes found in Germany are the oldest musical instruments known
Zplko TIL Béla Kiss (1877 - ??) was a was a Hungarian serial killer who is thought to have killed at least 24 people. Kiss pickled their corpses in alcohol and sealed them in the airtight metal drums that he kept on his property.