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TIL About the "Glass Cliff": A phenomenon where women are more likely to achieve leadership roles in business and government during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.

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j6gyv TIL scientists filmed the deepest fish ever recorded swimming 8 336 m (27 349 ft) below the Pacific Ocean’s surface in Japan’s Izu-Ogasawara Trench
0wwR1 TIL the writers of “That 70’s Show” theme song get $70 each time the show airs. He refers to it as “That $70 Show”
4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"
yn6V TIL it’s faster and more efficient to cook pasta in a frying pan.
xVWG5 TIL carpenter bees come in an adorable blue species.