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nePkW TIL of Mandeville's 1714 story of a thriving bee community that decides to live by virtue instead of self-interest - and collapses. Adam Smith incorporated this idea of 'private vice, public good' into his work, and today its a foundational principle of Capitalism and Western Civilisation.
dDlaQ TIL about a guy that fell off of a cruise ship, unnoticed, near Cozumel, Mexico. He was in the water for hours. The man was subsequently picked up/rescued by another passing cruise ship, entirely by happenstance.
6Zgm TIL Archeologists excavating burial sites from 4000 BC have discovered clay pots repaired with glue made from tree sap.
4k9AX TIL that Neil Diamond had Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fischer as classmates at his Brooklyn High School - Erasmus High.
yVXe8 TIL ChatGPT outsourced Kenyan workers to help train its AI by labeling harmful content such as abuse, violence, and gore; one worker called the assignment "torture".