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TIL Serpent D'Océan is a sculpture made of aluminium, 130m in length. It represents the skeleton of an immense imaginary sea serpent, whose vertebrae undulate to end in an open mouth.

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PdLO TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
awP4o TIL that people eat ant eggs and they are considered a delicacy in Mexico.
grMe8 TIL that uterus transplantations are possible. For instance, in 2019 two births took place in Germany after a successful transplantation. The receiving women suffered from a syndrome called Müllerian agenesis and were born without a vaginal tract.
nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
4XDKb TIL that cheetahs can be easily tamed and were kept as pets in ancient Egypt and used to hunt in Rome