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TIL: Wyatt Earp served as an unpaid technical consultant for Hollywood Westerns

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8adyb TIL that Doane Robinson, the historian who came up with the idea for Mount Rushmore, initially didn't want it to feature former presidents. Robinson wanted sculptures of Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Red Cloud and other Sioux warriors but the sculptor refused to focus on regional heroes
69DYm TIL (well, yesterday) that the song Red, Red Wine was originally written and sung by Neil Diamond, not UB40.
4XGPw TIL during WWII, 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. About 8.23% of Germany's population perished.
VBpv4 TIL that local time changes of as little as 2 minutes between cities was common before the adoption of standardized time zones, so railroad companies set up "comparative time zone" tables using Washington DC at noon as a benchmark for train scheduling.
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