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TIL that in China sight impaired people are trained as masseurs so they can earn money and feel useful to society

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rNA4x TIL that the "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is currently being investigated for violence and coercion.
XLk6 TIL that the actor Chris Pratt was at one point homeless in Maui, sleeping in a tent on the beach working only enough hours to afford gas, food and fishing supplies
oR4k8 TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.
9jmX TIL the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that competitive cheerleading is NOT a sport and thus, can not be used in place of another women’s sport under Title IX.
0w7e5 TIL In Italy they can ask you a certification of "being alive". People can self-certificate of being alive. Death can't be self-certificated, though.