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"Humans are excellent at picking up patterns, even better than computers, despite recent advances in machine learning."

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BgM4y TIL that, in movies, staccato music is used to indicate comedy because it imitates human laughter
0wQEy TIL that a research suggests that humans fear cockroaches the most, even more than mosquitoes, due to an evolutionary aversion.
YGJv TIL NASA engineers asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, if 100 tampons was the right number for her 7-day trip to space.
Bj5d TIL of Baker’s Math: flour weight is always expressed as 100%, and sets the foundation for every other ingredient- 66% water, 2% salt, etc.
O7YL TIL that the “Banana Equivalent Dose” uses the banana as a basic unit of radiation when calculating radiation exposure levels, and is the original “banana for scale”