Post * gMW9 — Curious Curator

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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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ADXJo TIL charges were dropped on an Australian man for displaying the word "C*NT" on a public billboard because judges ruled the word as 'commonplace vernacular that is not deemed offensive' in Australia.

mDwY TIL inmates who were given dogs to train showed a decrease in blood pressure, decreased agressiveness, and were more successful in achieving positive results in training the canines than non-incarcerated trainers.

mxOMR TIL about "Grain entrapment", when a person becomes submerged in grain and gets stuck, often suffocating beneath the corn.

neKQY TIL there is a method of growing rhubarb known as "forcing" where the plant grows in complete darkness and is tended to in candlelight. It grows so quickly during this process that you can hear it grow.

jYWn TIL that there is a psychological phenomenon called the Backfire Effect. Essentially, the more you try to convince someone they are wrong using facts and figures, the more convinced they become that their preexisting beliefs are correct.