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TIL it was faster to take the train from New York to Buffalo in 1890 than in 2013

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m1k0y TIL there have been multiple "AI winters" which are periods of reduced funding and interest in the field following a period of hype in overstated AI capabilities.
9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
ADOyw TIL that famed Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov died of AIDS contracted during a blood transfusion.
4XJr6 TIL during a 2006-2007 tour of Afghanistan one Royal Marine sniper managed to kill over 90 Taliban fighters in just one day.
wL0po TIL the grave of Pakistan's and Muslim world's first Nobel prize winner was desecrated by Pakistani govt because they did not consider him Muslim enough due to his beliefs