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TIL in 2023, 10% of Anguilla's GDP came from registration fees for .ai domain names.

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kJJJE TIL that Ray Liotta was not in fact Italian--he had been adopted as an infant by an Italian man and his wife, but when he met his birth mother, in his 40s, he discovered he was actually of Scottish origin.
Oo4Jg TIL, Kenny Loggins was one of many collaborators on the song "We Are The World" by USA for Africa, and that would lead to him to performing Footloose at the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid famine relief concert event of the 1980s.
Ldld TIL that while it is quicker to have one line feeding into multiple cashiers at a store, it bothers most customers psychologically as they prefer to jockey for position, leading most stores to choose a more inefficient system to please customers. It is also why other lines move faster in your line.
xv10 TIL When New Jersey’s Action Park sent crash-test dummies down its looping waterslide, the dummies were dismembered.
mR8x TIL University of Cambridge researchers studying animal cooperation found elephants learned even faster than chimps; “elephants’ understanding of the need to cooperate shows that they belong in an ‘elite group’ of intelligent, socially complex animals.”