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TIL that the reason chips bags are half empty is because it is package with nitrogen gas to protect it from damage during transit

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D1XRe TIL the melody of "Love Me Tender" is taken straight from a civil war ballad
looY5 TIL that during his 2004 tour, David Bowie was stalked by someone in a pink rabbit suit; Bowie shrugged it off: "I thought, 'Hey, it's rock'n'roll. It's just a 5ft 3in bunny.'"
4XMwa TIL: Traditional chess engines – rely on thousands of rules and heuristics handcrafted by strong human players that try to account for every eventuality in a game. AlphaZero takes a totally different approach, replacing these hand-crafted rules with a deep neural network .
9d6p TIL that Louis Armstrong wore a Star of David throughout his adult life in tribute to the Karnofskys, a family of Jewish peddlers who had given him work and warm friendship during his difficult childhood
1VgV TIL that in the 1960s there were coin operated machines with live chickens that would play piano, ring a bell or play you in tic tac toe when you dropped in a dime.