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TIL 57.5% of College Graduates Don't Work in Their Field of Study

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jAmv TIL a mere 12,000 years ago a species closely related to modern humans had been living on an Indonesian island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall, weighing around 25kg.
oR4k8 TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.
a8GPZ TIL that after losing his Presidential reelection bid, John Quincy Adams briefly considered retirement but went on to win 9 Congressional elections and successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court for the freedom of the Amistad slaves.
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.
gMZL7 Today I learned the "Tanks" got their name because the British during WW1 were trying to keep the new weapons a secret and hid them in crates marked "tanks", telling people that they were just water tanks that were being delivered.