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TIL Facebook's facial recognition system was found to outperform similar systems used by the FBI. Where Facebook has a 98% accuracy rating in identifying faces, the FBI had a success rate of 85%.

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9wZnp TIL during the 17th and 18th centuries English capitalized all nouns (as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution) similar to the German language of today
QROe TIL A defense lawyer (who was also a congressman) in a murder trial accidentally shot himself and died while reenacting the possibility of a victim accidentally shooting and killing themselves instead of his client; the defendant was then set free.
Agp4 TIL That in Alabama, one can use the phrase “Roll Tide” instead of “I do” as a wedding proposal
eyeL TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches
x6087 TIL that in the 1980s, "Weird Al" Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement deal, which would be worth around $14.5 million today, because he felt it was unethical given his young, impressionable fanbase.