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TIL that — through the lens of modern data analytics — a simple voice recording can yield thousands of speech parameters that may reveal a user’s biometric identity, body shape, personality traits, mental & physical health, emotions, drug habits, geographical origin, and socioeconomic status.

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kJV5d TIL, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital? Jimmy Carter is also the 4th oldest living former head of state and the 26th oldest of all time—an impressive feat considering all those ahead of him reached 100.
VBZ0m TIL the Sasanid Persians and the Eastern Romans signed a treaty called the Treaty of Eternal Peace in 532 CE, which concluded the Iberian War (527–531) between the two powers over what is now Georgia. It only lasted 8 years, until 540
LQ7QZ TIL that in 1991 in County Durham, England, a TV crew was filming a confrontation between council officials and a land owner, when the land owner shot and killed a council planning officer. The TV reporter also got shot in the arm and a police officer got shot in the thigh.
p8V7Q TIL that due to their religious conviction, Puritan colonists of New England banned Christmas and ignored Easter. They also attempted to erase any cultural integrations rooted in European paganism.
m1ODM TIL that from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, many U.S. drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores had self-service tube testers in which customers could test vacuum tubes that were pulled from their malfunctioning electronic devices.