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TIL about GPT-3, the slightly antisemitic and sexist AI that can imitate your writing style

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awpnJ TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
7rAwX TIL that by 1880, horses in New York City deposited four million pounds of manure on city streets every day. In dry weather it would turn to fecal dust and choke pedestrians. Vacant lots were filled with the waste; these manure piles would rise up to 60 feet high.
oBZjr TIL Brent Gretzky, along with his brother Wayne, hold the record for most NHL points scored by siblings with 2,861. (Brent has 4).
7XWr TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”
pYJRO TIL Ed Kemper (The Co-Ed Killer) and Herbert Mullin (Another serial killer from the same era) were in the same block at a time and Ed Kemper "trained" him to behave himself.