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TIL a fashion designer tricked face recognition AI by changing her shirt and pants i.e. making it think she was an animal when she looked otherwise human

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vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
Ood44 TIL that French fries are called like this, because it come from the type of cut, the "French cut" referred to "Julienning" (julienne in french) the term "French fry" was alluded to when, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson requested "potatoes served in the French manner" to accompany a White House meal.
OGlZ4 TIL Romans organized many expeditions in subsaharan Africa, western expeditions, which crossed the Sahara desert, reached as far south as modern Nigeria while eastern expeditions, which followed the Nile upstream in search of its source, went as far south as Uganda and likely reached Lake Victoria
yENJ TIL from watching NatGeo and talking to my ex-Air Force grandfather that Area-51 was created and operated primarily for the eventual construction of the SR-71 Blackbird, and that aliens and UFO’s were just the workers trolling people who asked questions.
XdrP TIL Former US President Calvin Coolidge enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”