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TIL Ring Around the Rosie was more likely a flirting / courtship game and almost certainly had nothing to do with the Black Death.

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e0jmE TIL that AI(s) playing Chess, despite continually beating human players, are still not able to play according to the equilibrium strategy that forces the opponent into a draw. A strategy that was proven to exist by the mathematician Nash in the 1960s.
nb0G TIL a martyr named Saint Lawrence was grilled alive for his Christian faith, while being grilled alive he said “Im done on this side, turn me over”
oBbr7 TIL that the electricity-generating 'dynamos' on bikes are actually called magnetos because they output alternating current.
Z5mo TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street
RWX9 TIL twenty years ago Australian aboriginal suicide rates were equivalent to the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average.