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TIL: AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine. In 2024, 23% of Anguilla's entire yearly revenue consisted of selling its national domain name ".ai".

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aw4oZ TIL The same Gene that causes Asian people to "flush" when drinking alcohol causes a 4 times increase in DNA damage, and a much higher rate of heart and cancer problems from drinking alcohol.
X0gyD TIL physicist Ludwig Boltzmann also taught philosophy and his lectures on the subject became so popular that the Austrian Emperor invited him for a reception. He suffered from bipolar disorder and died by suicide at 62. His tombstone bears the inscription of his own entropy formula: S = k*log W.
v1QNR TIL March 26, 2020, had the lowest movie theater ticket sales in history, at a total of $24 (as opposed to 2019, with $17,294,351 in sales)
EgDyx TIL that in 2013, Chinese doctors have saved a man's severed hand by grafting it to his ankle
64ym TIL Brian May started writing his PhD thesis on the Zodiacal dust cloud in 1971 before beginning his musical career as the guitarist for Queen. He finished the thesis 36 years later, in 2007.