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TIL in 2016, Microsoft released an AI chatbot designed to learn conversation by interacting with humans. It was shut down in less than a day after it began praising Hitler.

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6vOX TIL that Jim Carrey auditioned for Saturday Night Live. Ultimately, he was dropped in favor of Charles Rocket. Who is Charles Rocket? The villain in Dumb and Dumber.
D6EP TIL the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland once used real skeletons taken from UCLA’s Medical Center. Rumors still persist that a few of them still remains in the attraction.
vEMK TIL It takes 20 minutes to produce a tin of Pringles, and only 11 seconds to fry each chip
O04g TIL the worlds oldest football (soccer ball) is from 1540 and was found on a castle roof in 1981
v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.