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TIL After the Osama Bin Laden raid the US Military used an early form of AI to analyze the recovered media and prevent imminent terror attacks.

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QJB8e TIL The scene in Jaws where Matt Hooper is attacked in the cage was actually performed by a 4'9" horse jockey in a smaller cage to make the sharks look bigger.
rXXy TIL that when Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) announced Japan’s surrender on the radio (Aug. 15, 1945), it was the first time his voice was heard by the Japanese people
XEWQr TIL the phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” expresses the sentiment that revenge that is delayed, and executed well after the heat of anger has dissipated, is more satisfying than revenge taken as an immediate act of rage.
E1lod TIL the Appalachian Trail became international in the 1990's and has since been extended with sections from the US through Canada, and into Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Britain, Ireland, Iberia, and into Africa
ANxK7 TIL the shortest-lived "empire" in history was a restoration of the Qing Dynasty of China lasting for 11 days in July 1917. Monarchists seized Beijing and reinstated Emperor Puyi, deposed five years prior and now eleven years old, on July 1 and were pushed back out by Republican forces on July 12.