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TIL Facebook artificial intelligence robots were shutdown after they started talking to each other in their own language

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jN1pN TIL In 2003 relations between Japan and China were strained due to a semi public orgy involving 400 Japanese businessmen and over 500 Chinese prostitutes
OGJBL TIL that Danish special forces operative Helge Mayer transported vital humanitarian aid to civilians for years during the Bosnian War in an armoured 1979 Camero with Kevlar Plates. He earned the nickname Gottes Rambo (God's Rambo) for extreme bravery without a weapon.
dDY8j TIL that carnivorous fungus will actively hunt worms with lassos and eat them. This behavior has evolved numerous times in nearly every family of mushrooms.
11d8 TIL Victoria Woodhull was the first woman ever to be a candidate for the U.S. Presidency, and gained sizable support before being arrested for obscenity charges and expelled from the election.
9wpym TIL The oil doesn't exist underground in caverns that would otherwise be empty if it wasn't for the oil. Instead of thinking of large empty pockets, think of a wet sponge, where the sponge is rock and it's "wet" with oil.