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TIL "We have the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter." Jeremy Howard

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kOLrW TIL the scientific name for chocolate, theobroma cacao, means 'food of the gods' (Theo meaning deity and broma being archaic English for food)
v11dK TIL that Brian Thompson, who played the villain in the 1986 film "Cobra," had to deliver his final monologue to the script supervisor instead of Sylvester Stallone, who was busy watching a basketball game.
Bawb TIL the term bucket list is derived from the phrase kicking the bucket which is derived from the kicking of the bucket from under your feet as you hang yourself.
ANke7 TIL that a Sudanese man was forced to marry a goat in 2005, after he was caught having sexual activity with it
694jl TIL a Piet Mondrian painting was hung upside-down for 75 years before its inversion was noticed