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TIL ChatGPT outsourced Kenyan workers to help train its AI by labeling harmful content such as abuse, violence, and gore; one worker called the assignment "torture".

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OA77 TIL during the alcohol prohibition some moonshiners used to wear ‘cow shoes’ which left cow hoof prints rather than human footprints so they couldn’t be tracked.
kOOgE TIL Universal Studios bought the E.T. script for $1 million from Columbia Pictures (which held it from Spielberg after putting it in a "turnaround") in exchange for the latter to retain 5% of the film's net profits. Columbia stated it made more money from E.T. than it did any of its films in 1982.
vP81x TIL an adult male peasant in the UK in the 13th century (1,620 hours/year) worked less hours per year than both: an average worker in the US in 1850 (3,150-3,650 hours/year) and an average worker in the US in 1987 (1,949 hours/year).
womJM TIL that Kevin Kwan sold the film rights to "Crazy Rich Asians" for just $1. However, as part of the conditions for the rights, he served as executive producer of the film with near-total creative control.
MeEVm TIL that because of the skin affect and the relatively high frequency of the plasma created by a tesla coil, and the low current. You can touch the output of a small coil, and instead of it going through you, shocking you, it will pass over your skin into the ground