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TIL when Google built a neural network and connected it to YouTube, it spontaneously taught itself to recognize cats with 74.8% accuracy.

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6k6m TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times.
yVWrv TIL The current water speed record for the fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle was achieved 46 years ago and is considered one of the sporting world's most hazardous competitions.
AxP7 TIL The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States from 5 states during the civil war used the word slave or a variant over 80 times. It also referred to the north as “non-slave-holding States”.
68GY TIL Tracy Morgan was married with three kids and living on welfare when he got his role on Saturday Night Live
LkBD0 TIL "All About That Bass" singer Meghan Trainor once said she "tried anorexia" by only eating ice and celery for three hours, but gave up and claimed to not be "strong enough" to have an eating disorder.