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kOMVB TIL IBM donated an International Translator System for use at the Nuremberg Trials, which brought the trial to life through simultaneous interpretation of English, Russian, French, and German delivered to 600 headsets with five audio channels. Later, IBM sold the proven system to the United Nations.
xVYeD TIL that Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan published a short story using paragraphs automatically generated by AI, based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan
b9xN9 TIL that despite being a huge and popular music icon for several decades, Prince was only 5'2" (158 cm) in height.
b9NVN TIL that two cars crashing head-on at 50 mph is not comparable to one car hitting a wall at 100 mph. "Although the two-car crash doubles the speed, the energy [of] the crash is transferred to twice the mass resulting in a crash that looks like just one car hitting a wall at 50 mph."
YpGEd TIL that shortly before Osama bin Laden was killed, the FBI used a Spanish MP as the basis for computer generated images of what he might look like.