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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.

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M7AD0 TIL or rather realised after 31 years that the Pokemon Ditto originates from the phrase/word "Ditto"
1bmV TIL the economist Peter Schiff repeatedly warned investors in 2006 about the coming subprime mortgage crisis on various news shows and was either laughed at or shouted down by pundits who recommended investing in banks that later failed
NXylN TIL St. Louis, Missouri has fewer current residents than it did in 1870.
P5Ae TIL in 1891, William Coley showed that spontaneous remission of cancer could be induced using toxins which model a bacterial infection. Despite treating over 1000 individuals and curing some patients with end-stage cancer, the last recorded use of this therapy was in China in the 1980s.
7rYmO TIL after a police search failed to find ex-WWE wrestler Ray Rougeau’s friend who was lost in the Canadian wilderness, Ray successfully found him by flying his own plane above the woods.