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TIL that AI can now generate any illustrated children's book in <1-2min

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wWL1 TIL No studies have found MSG unsafe for consumption, and hundreds of studies have found it perfectly safe. Likewise, MSG’s common reputation as unsafe mostly stems from one person’s unverified complaints and speculation, and the substance has been considered safe by the USDA for 58 years.
QGG6 TIL Andy Warhol, mentor and manager of The Velvet Underground, wanted their debut album to have a built-in crack, so that the line “I’ll be your mirror”, from the song of the same name, would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listeners moved the needle themselves
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
mJeM TIL in roughly 800 AD, a nobleman was ordered to trial by combat against the faithful dog of a man he was suspected of murdering. The dog won. (more details inside, this really is a must read)
ne56P TIL Nothing Compares 2U by Sinead O'connor was a cover written by Prince and originally on the album The Family (1985). He invited her to his home after release and he told her he didn't like her saying bad words in interviews so she told him to "F*** off" and she left after he got violent over it.