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TIL that French prisoners in the 1700s were granted freedom if they agreed to marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana

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xVQjg TIL: about an open-sourced multiplayer space-station simulation called Space Station 13. Originally developed as an atmospherics simulator in 2003, it was eventually open-sourced in 2006. Contributors have made regular additions for over 15 years.
4Xdg6 TIL Our sky is actually violet, but it appears blue because the cones in the human eye aren’t as sensitive to violet.
l7ayB TIL of the "Ouroboros Effect" - a collapse of AI models caused by a lack of original, human-generated content; thereby forcing them to "feed" on synthetic content, thereby leading to a rapid spiral of stupidity, sameness, and intellectual decay
p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
7rArp TIL in 1974 a Norwegian student visited Lendbreen ice patch looking for historical artifacts. He discovered a spear from the Viking age. More than 1000 years old, it had been preserved in the ice and remains one of the best examples of these weapons know to date.