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TIL that the painting of George Washington used on the dollar bill was never completed.

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0dMxA TIL about Garderobe, Toilets in a Medieval Castle that were usually built into the walls, like a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit (akin to a pit latrine) or the castle moat (like a fish pond toilet). It was believed that ammonia would protect visitors' coats and cloaks from moth
LQO1V TIL that there's a room in the basement of Oregon State Hospital now known as, "The Room of Forgotten Souls." In 2004, several copper cans were discovered containing the remains of 3,600 psychiatric patients cremated on-site between 1917-1973.
4DNJ TIL Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in the puzzle game “2048,” achieving a high score of 839,732 and beating the game in only 973 moves without using any undos
aw079 TIL that in a sexual survey U.S. women reported using a nationwide total of 1.1 Billion condoms a year. Men reported using 1.6 Billion condoms a year. The actual amount of condoms sold by manufacturers was 600 million.
4k6r5 TIL about the Carna botnet. A non malicious botnet that took over 400,000 computers and collected and published data. Over 1.2M computers had admin access with no password or the password “admin”.