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TIL AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces.

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LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
KO8Jw TIL Members of a chimpanzee troop in Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them as hunting tools.
JYpDj TIL Skepticism is the longest typed word on the typewriter (or any keyboard )in which you alternate hands every letter and the word typewriter, is one of the longest words able to be typed using one row of letters.
LQ6J9 TIL Alexander Pushkin, known as the father of Russian literature, was the great-grandson of an Ethiopian prince.
rRZ9w TIL about brothel candles, which burned for precisely 7 minutes and were heavily used during Victorian times. The individual would pay the fee, light the candle, and when the candle burned out, the session was over.