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TIL Frank Hayes, a jockey who died in 1923 after suffering a fatal heart attack in the middle of a steeplechase at Belmont Park in New York State, USA. His lifeless body stayed on the saddle until his horse crossed the finish line, making him the only jockey known to have won a race after death

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rN4n1 TIL of Truganini, who was long considered to have been the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine, and who lived and died during the brutal colonisation of her land. Her dying wish for her ashes to be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel was finally honoured in 1976, 100 years after her death.
N7PM8 TIL that a person working in the telecom industry made an AI bot to prank telemarketers that talks to them until they catch on as he was annoyed with telemarketing calls. He created an algorithm that says, "Hello? hello?" to trick the agent to thinking they have reached their target.
jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.
looJ1 TIL that France beats UK, Germany & other European countries when it comes to global innovation
aw8D0 TIL of the Bystander Effect - a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help