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TIL that in 1958, the Navy expected its human-level A.I. “to be finished in about a year at a cost of $100,000.”

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9lXr TIL Winston Churchill once defined tact as “the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such as way that they look forward to the trip.”
1aAe7 TIL in Portland, Oregon (2006) a 58 year old husband hired a Hit man to murder his wife. When his wife returned home she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
AyWa TIL as much as 40 percent of bottled water in the United States comes from public water supplies yet costs up to 2000 time more
699xJ TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan's warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito's presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it "the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life"
k5V5 TIL there is a “third” Korea. Its a neutral zone governed by the Chinese.