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TIL about Re:scam, an AI made to keep infinitely asking questions to scammers to make them lose time. Re:scam has made scammers lose 5 years answering pointless emails.

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neWKo TIL In pre-colonial Nigeria there was a city with walls four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
NjN TIL there is a town in Wyoming, USA, with a population of just 1 person (who worked as both a janitor and a mayor) that sold for $900,000 to a Vietnamese buyer after an 11 minute online auction.
lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
4kp8J TIL that the only sound recordings in existence of someone born in the 18th century speaking, are of Helmuth Von Moltke the German field commander.
5Qyn TIL John Belushi disappeared off the set of ‘Blues Brothers’ (1980) one night. On a hunch, Dan Aykroyd went to the nearest house with lights on; “Belushi? He came in here an hour ago and raided my fridge. He’s asleep on my couch.” The confused homeowner informed him.