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TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet

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Kl8w TIL at one point, the highest paid athlete in New Zealand was Tiger Woods’ caddy. Steve Williams.
oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
YpVNx TIL that a dolphin and false killer whale can mate and create a hybrid ‘wolphin’
vPV1D TIL Ever since she was 12, Ellen Degeneres' idol has been Dian Fossey after seeing her hold a gorilla in 1970 National Geographic. Fifty years later, Ellen set up the $15 million "Ellen DeGeneres Campus" at Virunga Massif for gorilla conservation and research
WkL9A TIL The CEO’s of Microsoft, Adobe and MasterCard all went to the same high school in India