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TIL Even the Pope thinks the debate between Creationism and Evolution is ridiculous.

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loBrA TIL that before WWI Kaiser Wilhelm tried to impress Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by telling her "My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." her reply was, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"
8aplP TIL When Robin Williams auditioned for the role of Mork on 'Mork and Mindy', he was asked to take a seat. Williams responded by sitting on his head, upside down in the chair. He was hired on the spot because, 'He was the only alien to audition' for the part.
4XZ1R TIL that by 1983, the “Quartz Crisis” had decimated the Swiss watchmaking economy, which had 1,600 watchmakers in 1970 and eventually fell to 600.
69AlZ TIL that an AI that is trained to guessing couples based on pictures and maybe voice samples and digital footprints sounds like a good idea. Could that be a matchmaking ai that is not prefect but a quantum leap better then tinder and everything we have?
WkLvo TIL Colombian drug smugglers often dump their illicit cocaine cargo when confronted by law enforcement. Lobster fishermen in Nicaragua's Mosquito coast often end up recovering the cocaine, calling it "white lobster".