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TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.

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wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.
PRoL TIL that a town in Newfoundland took in 38 airplanes carrying over 6,600 passengers immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Centers, almost doubling the town population. Despite this, the people of the town worked together tirelessly to care for the passengers for up to 6 days.
b67MQ TIL about the Cosquer cave in France. Its only entrance lies 121ft (37m) below the surface of the water, and it has cave drawings of various animals that are estimated to be 27,000 years old.
rN5Zd TIL that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone purchased, renovated, and are reopening Casa Bonita in Denver.
VMoGD TIL that in the year 1909, the British Intelligence Agency MI6 was formed but it was kept such a secret that it wasn't formally acknowledged until the year 1994.