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TIL that AI is making the Dead Internet Theory more than just a theory.

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v1nQ4 TIL The original Street Fighter (1974) was the first movie to ever receive an X-rating in the U.S. for violence alone.
e0JD4 TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all
9wMDQ TIL of Ernest J. King, the American Chief of Naval Operations and one of the most disliked Allied leaders. Despite his capability, King had a short temper that made him many enemies. This led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to describe King as a man who "shaves every morning with a blow torch."
LQM8Q TIL that the Indian mathematician and astronomer Baudhayana, who lived around 800 BCE, wrote the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, which describes the construction of various geometric shapes using a rope known as a "sulba” with precise geometric measurements, the Pythagorean theorem, area of a circle.
e0Xwg TIL Venus is the only planet in the solar system that spins backwards.