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TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron

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Z8g9D TIL that Morocco was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United States
m1LXM TIL about Theseus, a robotic mouse created by Claude Shannon in the 1950s, which could learn to navigate mazes using telephone relay switches, marking one of the first instances of machine learning. Theseus helped researchers better understand routing in telephone networks of that era.
XEk0r TIL there is a desease which causes yeast to grow in your digestive system, producing alcohol, making you drunk all the time
grw1A Til that the designer of the SS rune symbol was only paid about $2 for his design.
renW TIL that “forlorn hope” (the name of the first wave of attacking soldiers in battle, who take the most casualties) is actually a clumsy mistranslation of the Dutch phrase “verloren hoop,” meaning “lost troop.”