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TIL that in his famous paper, Computing Machinery And Intelligence, Alan Turing recommended that the Turing Test be performed in a 'telepathy-proof room' so the human couldn't use psychic powers to identify the computer

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D1dng TIL that former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak (Served 2008-2013) is currently serving a 15-year term in prison, and has been forced to pay $11.5m in fines. He was convicted on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuses of power, namely taking a bribe to pardon the chairman of Samsung.
N7VmN TIL that Mongolia's Navy is comprised of 1 tugboat and 7 sailors, making it the smallest in the world.
YwMr TIL Stephen King gave a rave review of the film “The Evil Dead”, which helped convince New Line Cinema to serve as its distributor. King called it “most ferociously original film of the year,” which attracted the interest of critics who otherwise would likely have dismissed the low-budget thriller.
OMrR TIL that Latvia has one of the fastest Internet download and upload speeds in the world, and beats out the U.S by a sizable margin.
8epBZ TIL China and India have been the population centers of the world for at least 6,000 years