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TIL when the current King of Thailand was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the hospital room in which he was born was declared Thai territory for the duration of the birth so that he could be born on Thai soil

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vBe7 TIL: Freddie Mercury and Micheal Jackson were supposed to record three songs. Freddie was all good to go till Jackson decided to bring his pet Llama into the studio which pissed off everyone and those songs were never recorded.
4kVPg Today I learned that on average, Mercury is the closest planet to ALL other planets.
OowV1 TIL in 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba. The US sent CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow him, but failed due to missed military strikes. Castro captured the exiles, but ultimately freed them in exchange for medical supplies and baby food worth $53M.
kJwLm TIL Arthur Conan Doyle made friends with Harry Houdini over their shared interest in Spiritualism. They fell out when Houdini started calling BS on the whole thing.
a8rRJ TIL Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago which was designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent Nightshade seeks to “poison” generative AI image models.