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TIL it’s easier to shatter car windows with porcelain than with a hammer

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R6K6 TIL in Denmark parents of newborn babies have to choose a name from a government approved list of 7,000 names.
dDKpr TIL over 20 years ago AOL Instant Messenger had a "AI" bot called Smarterchild. One of the first consumer facing machine learning interfaces that was publicly available!
gMgL9 TIL that a man that went looking for the Titanic was only using that as a cover for a secret Cold War US Navy mission. The mission was competed 12 days earlier than expected, so with the time he had left he looked, and he found it!
E1xQp TIL that North Korea has a VHS copy of Space Jam enshrined in a musuem
6b87 TIL British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a “whites only” victory. They insisted that all black soldiers be taken out and replaced by white ones from other units.