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TIL the map of a Fly Brain closely matched the architecture used in current AI models

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69RO8 TIL that when Eric Clapton's son Conor died aged 4 the first person to send condolences was Keith Richards. Richards had himself lost a son years earlier.
0wneL TIL that during the last few months for jazz legend John Coltrane’s death, he would take the sax out of his mouth during performances and start beating his chest, chanting, yodeling, and screaming. Sometimes Coltrane felt like even his sax couldn’t truly express what he wanted to say.
J9J1 TIL that Shaq was one of the original investors in Google and VitaminWater, but passed up on Starbucks because he didn’t drink coffee.
JG1 TIL the Nancy Drew books were extensively revised in 1959 to eliminate racist stereotypes
16RDV TIL Benjamin Martin designed and built a pocket microscope in 1738. This design became very popular and was later copied throughout Europe, known as drum microscope