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TIL that in North Carolina, it is illegal to disclose the chemicals used in fracking

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WkmoY TIL the Federal Aviation Administration banned “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device."
nedw7 TIL that Voltaire teamed up with a mathematician to exploit a loophole in the French lottery that set him up financially for life
dDKpr TIL over 20 years ago AOL Instant Messenger had a "AI" bot called Smarterchild. One of the first consumer facing machine learning interfaces that was publicly available!
D1OYe TIL that in France, students are taught that there are 5 continents. This blew my mind because in the USA, I learned that there are 7 continents and thought it was a universal fact.
R5e5w TIL billionaire Warren Buffett eats breakfast at McDonald's every day and pays with exact change of either $2.61, $2.95, or $3.17, depending on what he chooses to eat that day.