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TIL Bilingual reduced emotional resonance is a fairly well-established phenomenon were many bilinguals report “feeling less” in their second language, which might make it easier to use highly emotional vocabulary, and swear.

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5Vvxp TIL that the concept of machines “hallucinating” was first noted in 1995. A researcher discovered that a neural network could create phantom images and ideas after it was randomly disturbed. This happened years before the term was applied to modern AI generating false content.
OwGa TIL The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are kept by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations this arrangement has been in place since 1187 ce.
v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.
WwD8 TIL Kansas serial killer, the BTK Killer, installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them.
x6yQ5 TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.