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TIL that facial recognition on an iPhone probably doesn’t work on dead people.

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VMxbG TIL mathematician Milutin Milanković came up with what is now known as the Milanković theory of ice ages in part thanks to having a lot of free time. At the start of WW1 he was imprisoned in Budapest with the right to work for four years.
nVe7 TIL The US drank 48 gal. of coffee per person in 1948, but today only drinks 23. Partly due to soft drink companies marketing sugary sodas as healthy, and coffee as a poison that caused heart disease and birth defects in the 1970s. Soda is now a leading cause of diabetes and obesity.
m1vWR TIL that in 2015 the European Commission paid 360 000€ for a report to study how much piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted goods. The 300-page report concluded that piracy has no statistical effect on the sales and was quietly buried.
loBE1 TIL that Dalmatians have a natural affinity for horses, and were popularized as firefighter's dogs because they were used to calm and guard the horses that pulled the firefighters' carriages back in the day.
aOmN TIL that the original border between North and South Carolina was marked with stones and marks on trees, and is now lost