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X98r TIL that more than 1,000 experts, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, have signed an open letter urging a global ban on AI weapons systems
e0E5E TIL that NFL officials used to use a gunshot to signal the end of a quarter. In 1994 they switched to using a whistle.
R709a TIL that Walmart's employees earn as much in a year as the CEO earns in an hour.
OVO7 TIL Steven Spielberg didn’t accept a salary for Schindler’s List as he considered it “blood money.”
W7BvN TIL that The Gambia and Tobago were colonised by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia - now part of Latvia. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Latvian Duchy was unable to hold on to its colonial possessions for very long.