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TIL that Taiwan takes part in international events such as the Olympics under the name "Chinese Taipei" instead of their full name, the Republic of China.

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8eJZK Today I learned that the moon changes its distance from Earth by about 3.3 times the diameter of the Earth (~42,500km)
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DQ4Ke TIL that Unit 731 officials got immunity from prosecution in return for access to their research of human experimentation
j6EYX TIL the term “gaslighting” actually comes from a 1938 play, “Gas Light”, where a husband manipulates his wife to make her think she’s actually losing her sense of reality so he can commit her to a mental institution and steal her inheritance.
5Yj7B TIL an MIT developed AI became much better at playing a video game after the programmers made it read the manual for it.