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

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wxgE TIL that after the death of Alexander the Great, the architect Dinocrates proposed to have the entirety of Mount Athos carved in the general’s likeness.
kOPG7 TIL HDMI charges its licensed manufacturers $10,000 per year plus $0.15 per cable, reduced to $0.05 if the HDMI logo is on the socket.
awkwb TIL from 1961 till 1972 women were prohibited to run marathons in US since officials thought woman’s uterus could fall out from long distance running
e0JGk TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years
0w8Q1 TIL In 1891 women throughout Victoria went door to door, gathering signatures for a women’s suffrage petition, which became known as the ‘Monster Petition'. The petition was approximately 260 metres long and contained nearly 30,000 signatures, including that of Jane Munro, the Premier’s wife.