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TIL that in ancient Ireland, sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission. Failed kings would have their nipples brutally cut to dethrone them and make them incapable of holding kingship.

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XEdW6 TIL that David Byrne of Talking Heads has an Academy Award for composing the score for The Last Emperor
Bg7Gr TIL that the turkey (bird) got its name out of a mistaken belief that it was an unrelated bird species, which was itself also mistakenly believed to come from Turkey.
P195w TIL in 2016, Microsoft released an AI chatbot designed to learn conversation by interacting with humans. It was shut down in less than a day after it began praising Hitler.
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