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TIL bicycle stability is actually a quite difficult mathematical problem and was fully explained no sooner than 2007

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1aAW7 TIL that Facebook shut down a pair of its artificial intelligence robots, nicknamed Alice and Bob, after they started talking in their own created language.
Wkm6B TIL People born deaf with schizophrenia see disembodied hands signing to them, as opposed to "hearing" voices
Z5PY TIL Verizon made a deal in 1994 with the PA state gov. to provide the entire state with fiber internet by 2014, it received 2.1 billion in tax breaks, but never fulfilled it’s part of the contract
6O9l TIL Arnold Palmer and Mister Rogers were high school classmates.
Z8XKo TIL that the term “Peeping Tom” originates from the time Lady Godiva rode her horse naked around Coventry in protest at her husband’s (Earl of Mercia) tax increases. She asked people not to look but a man named Thomas did and according to legend, was struck blind.