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TIL it's possible for parents to select the gender of their baby using IVF.

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nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
NWwb TIL the kid that played Jack in Hook and “Kid” in Dick Tracy (Charlie Korsmo) quit acting, got a degree in physics from MIT, graduated from Yale Law, passed the Bar, became a lawyer, and is currently teaching law at Case Western.
baD0 TIL William Hung, known for his famous American Idol audition, is a 73rd generation descendant of Confucius
rRr5w TIL that the first home video game console is the Magnavox Odyssey, which was created in 1972 which was created by Mr Ralph Baer, had approximately 350,000 units sold