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TIL Roald Dahl predicted LLM used to produce "literature" in his short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" from 1954

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9wEXG TIL about the Millennial whoop - no, it's not what you think! - but it is a vocal melodic pattern that especially prevalent in 2010s pop music - one early example of its usage in the new millennium is the song "In the Shadows" by the Finnish band The Rasmus from 2004
Pxbg TIL that Jeremy Wade, (the guy from River Monsters) at “various times in his journey around the world, was detained as a suspected spy, caught malaria, threatened at gunpoint, survived a plane crash, and survived drowning.
KBKa TIL the bible mentions unicorns 9 times.
XdWE TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet helped pay the nursing home fees for the last Titanic survivor so she wouldn’t have to sell anymore Titanic mementos to raise cash.
5VxR8 TIL not a single person who has been born blind has ever been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Scientists believe there is a protective factor between congenital blindness and schizophrenia