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TIL That Coca-Cola Named The World’s Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit

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m4aO TIL that in 2003, Morocco offered to send 2,000 monkeys to assist the war effort in Iraq. They were to be used to detonate land mines
6O8J TIL Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.
Vy7G TIL Many American public libraries carry video games as an attempt to lure teenagers into a library. The result is more teenagers coming to the library and books are being checked out at a rate that exceeds what it was before the gamers arrived
Gw6g TIL in “Hey Jude” by The Beatles Paul McCartney messes up and says “fucking hell!” It’s audible in most versions.
oR4k8 TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.