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TIL the University of Washington has developed an algorithm which can age a person’s face up to 80 years with insane accuracy.

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R7gb1 TIL a radio DJ managed to get a non-existent book onto the New York Times Best Seller list by telling his listeners to request it in book stores, he also gave them a fake author name and a basic plot outline to convince others it was real
Bgaab TIL that the earliest working type of escalator was patented in 1892 by Jesse W. Reno, and was actually introduced in 1896 as a novelty ride at Coney Island, a theme park in New York.
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OvRX TIL Richard Dawson (original host of Family Feud) was asked by producers to quit kissing women. He asked the audience to mail in what they wanted, 704 were against the kissing, and 14,600 wanted him to continue.
Z81NR TIL the purpose of menhirs, over 50,000 large man-made upright stones distributed across Europe, Asia and Africa, still remains unknown to archeologists.