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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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nQK9 TIL that after poachers kill large mammals the presence of vultures overhead can warn rangers that a kill happened. So the poachers poison the carcasses for the vultures. This is causing a large decline in the vulture populations and leading to increased levels of disease.
vPVP7 TIL that eating spicy foods in hot weather will cool you down more than cold ice cream because spicy foods make you sweat which will cool you off more quickly and efficiently.
EMJP TIL a sleeping pilot awoke to see Venus in the night sky, mistook it for an oncoming plane and dove the plane down. Unsecured passengers were thrown against the ceiling.
GYp74 TIL the Venus flytrap was originally called a, "tippity twitchet", in reference to human female genitalia
0rM TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.