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TIL that Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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neVkb TIL Tasmanian opium farmers found crop circles in their fields. Wallabies were getting high and going around in circles.
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nOOG TIL that upon the German occupation of Paris in 1940, the lift cables of the Eiffel Tower were cut by the French. German soldiers had to climb the tower to hoist the swastika.
L1ov TIL Michael Keaton vetoed Michelle Pfeiffer playing Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman as they had previously been in a relationship and he thought it too awkward. She would later star opposite him in Batman Returns.
a8rRJ TIL Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago which was designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent Nightshade seeks to “poison” generative AI image models.