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TIL that some researchers estimate the chance of a global catastrophe caused by AI to be 30%

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j6kdM TIL Michael Crichton was 6’9” and graduated from Harvard Medical School.
X0vK8 TIL In 1987, genetic fingerprinting (DNA profiling) was used in a US criminal court for the first time. The convicted criminal served twenty-two years in prison.
e01x4 TIL Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, was orphaned at 12 and named her son after her guardian, George Eskridge. Her husband, Augustine Washington, died when their son George was 11, and she never remarried. She died of breast cancer in 1789, after George became the president.
wL99W TIL that the last notable author to make the Catholic Church's "banned books" list was Simone de Beauvoir. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was discontinued no sooner than 1966.
rBJ1 TIL an abandoned Walmart was converted into America’s largest single-floor library (124,500 square feet)