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TIL Game of Thrones has brought more than $100 million to Northern Ireland’s economy

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gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet
mxZAR TIL 13 minutes were cut out of the movie The Land Before Time because it was considered too “frightening” for kids. The uncut version has never been released.
p8VMQ TIL learned of Hippasus of Metapontum, a a Pythagorean philosopher who was drowned at sea for discovering irrational numbers
dDw4j TIL The 1988 hit song Soldier of Love was intentionally released without the artist’s name. The radio station was worried that Donny Osmond might not go over well with the listeners. It reached #2 and relaunched Osmond’s career.
gMkYW TIL: about Austin Rogers-a bartender that became a 12-time “Jeopardy!” champion whose impressively broad knowledge helped him win more than $400,000 on the show. Today, Rogers still works as a bartender in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City.