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TIL Bender’s apartment number 00100100 is a binary representation of the ASCII character “$”.

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69AlZ TIL that an AI that is trained to guessing couples based on pictures and maybe voice samples and digital footprints sounds like a good idea. Could that be a matchmaking ai that is not prefect but a quantum leap better then tinder and everything we have?
pnNZ TIL that Nazi eugenics programs were inspired by the United States. Decades before Hitler came to power, forced sterilization and marriage restrictions were law in 27 states. Hitler was so impressed that he called books written by American eugenicists “his bible”.
KYAmG TIL in 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “literally packed to the brim with cocaine.”
gM4Qy TIL over 80% of the losses by Bernie Madoff's victims were recovered.
0dW5N TIL that in 2016 a rat broke into an ATM and ate $19,000 worth of cash