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TIL that 99% of all intelligence will be artificial, according to a World Economic Forum panelist

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oRl07 TIL a woman in China reportedly cut off her husband's penis with a scissors while he slept after she found out he had sent racy emails to another woman. In addition, while he was recovering in the hospital from the surgery that reattached it: she reportedly cut it off again & threw it out the window
grAd9 TIL that during the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty that founded NATO, the Portuguese delegate gave a speech in English with such a heavy accent that the translator just repeated it without the accent and nobody realised.
P0Jw TIL the phrase “Money is the root of all evil.” is a misquotation of “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” which has quite a different meaning.
kJJ44 TIL in the founding myth of New York penned by Washington Irving, the Dutch settlers negotiated to buy an underpants-sized plot of Manhatten from the Lenape, only to unveil an enormous pair of pantaloons once the deed was signed
p8vG4 TIL the earliest Titanic-based movie was released just 29 days after the sinking. It starred one of the survivors. No copies of this film remain.