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TIL researchers found that people couldn't tell the difference between human & AI-generated poetry, and even preferred the latter. AI-generated poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as “creativity”, “atmosphere” and “emotional quality”.

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we47 TIL Females have a prostate. It used to be called the Skene’s gland until doctors realized it serves the same functions as a male prostate.
d8xgK TIL that Bob Barker didn't stop dying his hair until he was 64. The first time he came out to host The Price is Right with gray hair, he got a standing ovation.
wlJ8 TIL The first pacemakers had to be plugged into the wall and would fail if there was a blackout.
Y7WPW TIL on the morning of February 10, 1970, a powder snow avalanche travelling at 120 mph crashed into Val d'Isère, an Alpine ski resort. This French resort was run by a non-profit youth organisation and mostly drew younger skiers. 39 adolescent skiers and three trail personnel were killed that day.
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