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TIL Opossums can climb brick walls

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gLVy TIL the US is finally getting rid of the obsolete swipe-and-sign credit card payment method (starting in October of this year with a ‘liability shift’)
4XmWX TIL Baby X , the virtual baby from the Soul Machines lab : A digital simulation of a baby with several system layers based on an AI model that will interact with humans and will have to learn it all from scratch, like a real baby.
Zk7Y TIL: a 13 yr old who made a Braille printer out of Legos after discovering that millions of blind people in developing countries buy Braille devices that cost $2K and weigh 20 lbs. His prints Braille from computers to paper using raised dots instead of ink, weighs a few lbs, and costs only $350.
dwO8 TIL Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine could not be patented - on TV Salk claimed that he made the decision on moral grounds, but did not mention that his lawyers looked into patenting his polio vaccine, but determined it “could not be patented because of prior art”
w89M TIL that during the Cold War the USSR and the USA planned to go to jointly go to space together, but the assassination of JFK caused the plan to fall through because the soviets didn’t trust his replacement.