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TIL Florida law allows people to smash car windows to save pets from overheating

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Y70Qr TIL that George Lucas named the planet Tatooine after the region of Tunisia where he filmed those scenes - Tataouine.
5YBaR TIL The trivia (singular trivium) are three lower Artes Liberales: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates.
9wDe7 Til the Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure at 646.30 m (2,120 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It was build to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica.
QJeVp TIL: Coretta Scott King used to baby sit John Lithgow
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