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TIL In 2001 Charles Ingram won the grand prize (£1,000,000) on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” by having a friend in the audience cough on the right answer. He was suspected of cheating, and after review of the recordings the accusation was confirmed. He was charged for deception.

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kOVB7 TIL Canada's major banks are all pushing to develop more homegrown research into deep learning and artificial intelligence in an attempt to reverse the Silicon Valley brain drain
Wk8D4 TIL Humans have physiological adaptations related to the climate of their genetic origins. A study on Chilean Alacaluf Indians shows that they have a resting metabolic rate 150 to 200% higher than whites. South African Bantus have a lower sweat rate than that of acclimated whites.
XEmGD TIL: That Charles Manson studied Scientology while incarcerated, Manson completed 150 hours of auditing before declaring Scientology "too crazy".
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G5J7 TIL Pope Formosus’ body was exhumed and put on trial, where a deacon was appointed to answer for Formosus. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers, clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.