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TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five

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kmyg TIL the original voice for Siri was a woman named Susan Bennett. She was paid hourly to record nonsense phrases for a third party company, and only later learned that she had provided Apple with “all of the sounds of the English language”, which they could then formed into any response.
v9nB TIL the word “decimate” comes from the Roman army’s tradition of killing one out of ten soldier when a large group had committed a crime. The word literally means “removal of one tenth”, rather than devastation, as it means today.
6EAEw TIL humans domesticated a mold thousands of years ago (Aspergillus oryzae.) It produces soy sauce, miso, sake, amazake, among other savory things.
ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
KjNa TIL that after being heckled by a State Assemblyman at an event, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed one of the state senator’s bills with the words “fuck you” written down the side of his veto explanation.