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TIL Machine Learning models can be fooled badly. It confidently recognizes images which are unrecognizable to humans.

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l6YG TIL An eight year old boy in India is the worlds youngest known serial killer
XEyA6 TIL that since Icelandic horses are not immune to the same diseases that the European horses are, once an Icelandic horse leaves the island it may never return.
PYw8G TIL in the 1950s the US Navy sprayed San Francisco with a bacteria known to leave 'pink slime' residue in damp environments like bathrooms and now known to cause UTIs and pneumonia, in order to test the impact of an offshore biological weapons attack on a coastal city
LkWOQ TIL that while apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking questions to humans or other apes.
8eMWa TIL The US attempted to engineer longer monsoon seasons in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War in order to 'ruin roads, jam rivers, and extend the amount of time swathes of Vietnam weren’t traversable.' After 5 years and millions of dollars spent, it's not clear if it accomplished anything.