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TIL Why The US Gov Reshapes The Mississippi River And What It Takes To Stop The Mississippi River From Changing Course.

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b9vAN TIL Facebook's facial recognition system was found to outperform similar systems used by the FBI. Where Facebook has a 98% accuracy rating in identifying faces, the FBI had a success rate of 85%.
xVXyo TIL About the "Candy Bombers" who in addition to provided air drops of food to starving people in Berlin during the Soviet blockade also dropped candy for the children. An act that continues today during food drops.
JYEvm TIL They found that the bats' closest relatives aren't tree shrews, flying lemurs, or even mice (as has been proposed); instead, they formed their own group early on that may share a common ancestor with the mammals that eventually evolved into horses, pangolins, whales, and dogs.
BrY6d TIL bacteria scream when they die
rRMQ0 TIL In WWII around 140 Jewish prisoners were employed by the Nazis to forge British pound banknotes for a total value of £300 million ($24 billion in 2020). They were so successful that in 1943 the Bank of England withdrew all denominations above £5, until 1964. All the prisoners survived the war.