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Today I learned a business got the US government to topple a democratically elected government under false pretenses over bananas.

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JYlyB TIL of japanese nose tombs that contain up to 20 thousand pickled noses taken from dead Koreans 400 years ago as war trophies
4Xayb TIL that the Philippines was under American rule. Spain ceded the Philippines to America for $20 million.
NOx8 TIL that robots have r/Showerthoughts: An AI failed to understand “Fred shaving”. It detected an inconsistency: people don’t have electrical parts, but Fred had an electric razor, so it believed “FredShaving” contained electrical parts and asked whether Fred was still a person while he was shaving.
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
5YjLk TIL that precious metals like gold can be artificially created in particle accelerators. Basically lighter atoms are bombarded with neutrons and electrons making them turn into heavier atoms which then decay into the desired metal. Unfortunately, the process is extremely expensive.