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TIL Alan Turing, way back in 1951, predicted AIs will one day overthrow humanity: “Once machine thinking started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits ... therefore, we should expect the machines to take control."

GYKkJ TIL Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men is a cover of a song that came out a year before it in Trinidad
neLVd TIL: The closest relatives taxonomically to Seals is believed to be Bears
j6NnM TIL Cillian Murphy Lived with Gypsies to Prepare for the Role of Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders
exaL TIL the British are drunk in 76% of their Facebook photos.
wLlNP TIL there was a branch of the US mint in the Philippines, and it minted US pesos