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TIL Ubisoft partnered with the British Museum to apply machine learning to speed the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics

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Eo6P TIL that it wasn’t until he was 37 when Jack Nicholson found out that his supposed “sister”, June, was actually his mother
J1NKj TIL there is a group called The Unicode Consortium. It's most well known for approving emoji designs. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which keeps code and text standardized across platforms.
KWeQ TIL Because McDonald’s chicken McNuggets were so well received, every franchise wanted them and there wasn’t a system to supply enough chicken. As a result of the chicken shortage, they developed the McRib to give the franchises a new product.
g8J4 TIL a woman in Mexico performed a successful Caesarean section on herself without any medical training.
XEkr6 TIL that chewing gum is a synthetic rubber - polyisobutylene - and can be recycled into things like shoes, coffee mugs, pencils and rulers.