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TIL in order to catch people who point lasers at airplanes the police will dispatch a helicopter in the area and hover where it was reported hoping to get flashed and locate the suspect.

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KObLa TIL The band ‘Tool’ have a “secret album” called “The Holy Gift.” If you listen to their album “Lateralus” in a different order of tracks, the songs flow into each other even better, and and they make different musical themes from the original.
grmyW TIL that the hard disk of the infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden contained many video games including Half Life, Dragonball Z, Nintendo emulator games, and animated movies including Cars and Ice Age
J1doV TIL that large language models (LLMs) work by taking an input text and repeatedly predicting the next token or word. Most notable models include the GPT series.
yQl7J TIL that a French town honored a toilet as a war hero for over 25 years. The town's mayor showed General Patton a grave in 1917, unaware that it said 'Abandoned Rear', meaning a latrine. When Patton came back during World War 2, the latrine was still being maintained as a hero's grave.
BrW8y TIL that when Steve-o was 13, his dad was a top executive at Nabisco and challenged Steve-o to do better than his corporate box seats at a Motley Crue concert. Steve-o managed to track down the band in Toronto and get backstage passes.