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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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yVAoJ TIL of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020
KYg1G TIL that brothers Leon and Michael Spinks each won Gold Medals in Boxing at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - Leon as a Light Heavyweight and Michael as a Middleweight.
W7aYY TIL that only the Dutch use a special sign called a ‘krul’ or a ‘flourish of approval’ to indicate approval of schoolwork and other written documents.
LkZ10 TIL cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman broke 4,000 codes during WWII and brought down a Nazi spy ring by cracking an early version of the Enigma machine with pen and paper
DeYr TIL that from 1998-2006 the highest finish by a rider in the Tour de France not implicated in doping is 4th.