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TIL Rick Astley has made only $12 from Rickrolling

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wLJkJ TIL the spices mace and nutmeg are produced by the same plant
yENJ TIL from watching NatGeo and talking to my ex-Air Force grandfather that Area-51 was created and operated primarily for the eventual construction of the SR-71 Blackbird, and that aliens and UFO’s were just the workers trolling people who asked questions.
DkbD TIL of Ainu, a critically endangered language in Japan with only ten native speakers.
JlnV TIL “UVB-76” is a mysterious Russian radio signal (on 4625 kHz). For almost 40 years a repeating buzzing sound has been broadcasted, though every very few years it stops, and a Russian voice reads numbers and Russian names. In 2013, for the first time, UVB-76 issued an order: “Command 135 initiated”
J1doV TIL that large language models (LLMs) work by taking an input text and repeatedly predicting the next token or word. Most notable models include the GPT series.