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TIL Dynamite is pretty much just tiny algae fossils soaked in nitroglycerin

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R5Wjj TIL of the AI winter which was a period of reduced funding in AI research. There were 2 major winters from 74-80 and 87-00 and several smaller episodes in between. Currently we are in an AI spring.
GweQ TIL 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.
pYv88 TIL Charlie Parker attempted suicide in 1954. The death of his two-year-old daughter, the cumulative effects of his excesses with drugs and alcohol in his health and his crumbling career were contributing factors for his breakdown.
dDAN9 TIL John Brabazon Ponsonby was arrested during the French Revolution for being an aristocrate but was let free because he was too handsome to hang.
OGZ9g TIL Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England. After publishing her first book anonymously, she published Prayers or Meditations under her own name in 1545, during her time as Queen consort.