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TIL the first AI generated image was created in the 1970s

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M7mkW TIL that until 2011, MS-DOS was still used by the U.S. Navy food service management system
b9Zlj TIL There was a decade long “war” in Harlan County, Kentucky, to unionize the coal mines. It resulted in many deaths, Several bombings, and three seperates instances of intervention from the National Guard.
4Xo7g TIL 'The Father of Modern Gynecology', James Marion Sims, perfected his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved black women.
OoRme TIL The last individual of a species is called an "Endling" - when it dies, the species is extinct.
XlR8 TIL: That Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother’s own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.