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TIL that there has never been a state or federal law on the books that prohibited killing a praying mantis. Since the 1950s, a rumor has circulated that killing a praying mantis carries a fine.

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OoEA4 TIL The financial industry is rushing to embrace artificial intelligence to help in areas including trading, investing and automating interactions with customers. Most banks are at least piloting AI in equity research, but with varying degrees of commercial success at this point
9R66 TIL of Dado Banatao. He was born in rural Philippines. He walked barefooted everyday to elementary school and used bamboo sticks to learn math. He ended up in Stanford with a Masters in EECS, developed the first computer chips, and co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics.
nWkbW TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong.
loLA1 TIL Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer played Lenny Luthor, Lex Luthor's Nephew, in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. He now plays Lex Luthor on CW's Supergirl.
ne4QW TIL The Soviet KGB fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to the Mitrokhin Archive based on KGB files brought to the West by a defector.