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Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data

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wJo6 TIL that the current Director of the FBI keeps a copy of the FBI request to wiretap Martin Luther King, Jr., “as a reminder of the bureau’s capacity to do wrong.”
jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.
AD5xn TIL about Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, and naturalist who hunted and killed a number of man eating tigers and leopards. One tiger he had killed, the Champawat tiger, had killed an estimated 436 people (the highest number of people killed by a tiger.)
v1X5j TIL that the British museum has a Greek sling bullet dated from the 4th century which is inscribed with the word “DEXAI”, which translates to “CATCH”
OG9BR TIL that Abraham Lincoln was so convinced that he was going to lose the election of 1864 that he asked Frederick Douglass to lead scouts into the South to free as many slaves as possible before the new president took office.