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TIL that in 2018, an AI developed by MIT was intentionally trained using only dark, disturbing content to see if it would develop "psychopathic" tendencies. Named "Norman" after Norman Bates, the AI then interpreted neutral images as violent scenes, highlighting how data shapes AI behavior

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wLBjJ TIL of fake psychic Eva Carrière, who together with lover Juliette would entertain mainly male audiences in 1900s France. During seance she would run around naked and engage sexually with the audience, while Bisson would strip and demand gynecological examination to prove no 'ectoplasm' concealment
R7lwj TIL Domino's Pizza locations in Scotland have official, registered tartans for employees who would prefer to wear a kilt.
NxDP Til that an Italian man named Gino Strada has performed 30,000 operations in places such as Sudan, Cambodia and Afghanistan. All free of charge.
e0kJL TIL that in 1905 the Welsh rugby team responded to the traditional New Zealand pre-match haka by singing. Within seconds the 40,000 capacity crowd joined the players in song. The tradition of singing anthems before international fixtures had been invented.
v1LBB TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.