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TIL that there were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.

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5VOor TIL about the Glass Armonica, a musical instrument invented by Ben Franklin. Inspired by playing glass cups, bowls were mounted on a rotating spindle allowing a musician with wet fingers to play music. Mozart and Beethoven wrote for it but after 60 years strange rumors spread and it fell out of use.
kJVgg TIL that the famous bassoon opening melody from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is taken from the Lithuanian folk song "Tu, manu seserele" (O, my sister)
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.
aw1no TIL in 2015 Uzbek farmers were forced to glue the cotton they had harvested back onto the plants to provide a scenic backdrop for the prime minister's visit to the area's famous cotton harvest festival. Much of the cotton had been harvested by forced labor as well.
e0aQD TIL Speedy Gonzales has a cousin called Slowpoke Rodriguez that appeared in only two cartoons. Since he cannot move fast enough to defend himself, he carries a gun for protection