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TIL of the "Ouroboros Effect" - a collapse of AI models caused by a lack of original, human-generated content; thereby forcing them to "feed" on synthetic content, thereby leading to a rapid spiral of stupidity, sameness, and intellectual decay

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e066b TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."
wLYpY TIL that male spiders give female spiders gifts of prey wrapped in silk to increase mating success. Wrapping the gift in silk prevents the female from stealing it without copulating and sometimes conceals that the gift is just random trash.
GmQG TIL: Chuck Taylor, of Converse All-Star fame, was only a shoe salesman, and was simply paid commission on what he sold, and had an expense account with Converse. That’s it.
wbg8 TIL until 1970 United Airlines had men-only flights. The “New York” and “Chicago Executive” were advertised as “a club in the sky for men only”, with business-oriented amenities, free cigars, and a steak dinner served by stewardesses (the only women aboard). A lawsuit by feminists ended the flights.
LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).