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TIL that that several buildings in Seattle deliberately evoke traditional regional Native American architecture

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0wK6v TIL that after the Six Day War, Egypt closed down the Suez Canal in 1967 with 15 ships still on it. They remained stuck there for eight years, with the boat crew members forming the Great Bitter Lake Association. The GBLA had social clubs, its own version of an Olympics, and even stamps.
b9E1Q TIL that Super 3D Noah's Ark, a Bible game where you play as Noah putting angry animals to sleep with pellets, originally started out as a Hellraiser tie-in, the grisly horror film with BDSM underpinnings.
j6QNv TIL that AI models like ChatGPT don’t understand language like a real mind does. They predict the next word based on patterns in data.
R5oX6 TIL that Brockton High School which has hall of fame boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler as alumni, recently requested the National Guard to step in because of the level of fistfights there.
VBYY8 TIL That Americans Were Eating Sushi in 1905, and that there were Japanese restaurants in most American cities.