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TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.

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D1V7D TIL that the New Mexico territory was often considered for statehood in the 19th century but was never approved. One attempt in 1905 included merging with Arizona under the name 'Montezuma'. The following year the same merger was suggested under the name 'Arizona'. Arizona rejected the option.
Nope TIL that George Washington’s body was frozen for 3 days so he wouldn’t be buried alive, and that his friend William Thornton planned to “reanimate” his corpse by filling it with lamb’s blood and pumping air into his lungs.
b1m0 TIL of a species of Sea Cow over 10 times the size of Manatees that Europeans hunted to extinction in just 27 years
0NO5 TIL The term “kosher salt” derives not from its being made in accordance with the guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah (nearly all salt is kosher, including ordinary table salt), but rather due to its use in making meats kosher by removing surface blood.
4XOG5 TIL the US and UK intentionally avoided the Geneva conventions to avoid accountability for the mistreatment of German POWs, instead designating them 'Disarmed Enemy Forces'. This lead to large, wired in enclosures with poor shelter and other necessities, and prohibited the Red Cross from intervening