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TIL The facial recognition algorithms in use by facebook outperforms those in use by the FBI

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aOk0 TIL that on August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a wave of concentrated carbon dioxide that killed around 1,800 people and thousands of animals almost instantaneously. One witness said, “On that day there were no flies on the dead. The flies were dead too.”
ANL8x TIL One Gallon of Oil Can Contaminate One Million Gallons of Fresh Water
ogQK TIL that humans are meant to poop while squatting. People who struggle with their business on the toilet should get a stool or stack of books to rest their feet on.
EQxW TIL Nancy Grace has been linked to two separate suicides
kybe TIL that one of the earliest records we have of dreadlocks are from a civilisation in Crete