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TIL 2024 is a Tetrahedral (or Triangular Pyramidal) Number

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4xyR TIL Google once created an AI and when asked what the meaning of living is it replied “to live forever”.
neXoB TIL in 1971 Juliane Koepcke’s plane was struck by a lightning and broke up over the rainforest. She fell 3.2km (10000 feet) and survived. Despite having a broken collar bone and being extremely short sighted because she lost her glasses, the 17 years old girl survived for 11 days alone until rescued
WoRL TIL that the Roman Emperor Caligual once declared war on Posiden by ordering his army to head to the beach and start stabbing the water.
R5P9 TIL A Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII disobeyed multiple direct orders from his government and wrote special visas enabling thousands of Lithuanian Jews to escape the Holocaust. His reward was a ruined career and decades of ignominy and deprivation. He had no regrets.
oRP9Y TIL that Ernest Shackleton, a polar explorer most well known for the Endurance Expedition, when he led his entire crew out of the Antarctic ice after their ship had been crushed, was one of the men who testified at the British inquiry into the Titanic disaster.