TIL GPT as in ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”
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TIL that salt was once so valuable it was used as currency, and the word "salary" comes from "sal" (Latin for salt).
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TIL US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks but are currently looking to modernize it's systems because some systems are unsustainable due to outdated functionality and a lack of spare parts.
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US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks
Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
TIL that Charles Barbier invented "night writing," a raised-dot writing system for the blind in 1815 years before Louis Braille adapted and refined it into the system we use today. Despite being mostly forgotten, Barbier laid the foundation for tactile literacy.
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TIL that Adam Young, founder and sole member of electronic music project Owl City (of Fireflies fame), composed many of the stock ringtones found in iOS 7 and newer versions.
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Electronica Artist Owl City/Adam Young Designed iOS 7 Sounds [Updated]
Electronica artist Adam Young, the musician behind the popular project Owl City, is responsible for many of the new sound and ringtones in iOS 7...Jordan Golson (MacRumors.com)
TIL that in the past decade, some obese patients were sent to zoos for MRI and CT scans because standard hospital machines couldn't accommodate their weight. Zoos have larger scanners designed for big animals, making them a practical solution in these cases.
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Well, There’s Always the Zoo - The Hastings Center
Our patient, weighing over 600 lbs., was above the weight limit of our hospital system’s scanner tables and those of all the other major medical centers that we called in our large city.Susan Gilbert (The Hastings Center)
TIL the seemingly random string of letters and numbers "ji32k7au4a83" is a common password to use with online accounts because it spells out ""my password" in Chinese when using the Zhuyin keyboard layout to type.
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The reason why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a common and terrible password
It may seem complex but the password is excruciatingly simple.Charlie Osborne (ZDNET)
TIL all of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run on Linux
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TIL - Blind people who regain sight after years struggle to recognize objects because vision is learned, not automatic. They need to train their brain to actually see.
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Frontiers | Testing geometry and 3D perception in children following vision restoring cataract-removal surgery
As neuroscience and rehabilitative techniques advance, age-old questions concerning the visual experience of those who gain sight after blindness, once thoug...Frontiers
TIL that the last person to be recorded to have been born in the 1700s, Margaret Ann Neve, was born in 1792 and died in 1903, just 36 years before the start over WWII, only only 66 years before the moon landing. She could have heard George Washington speak, and heard the first radio in her lifetime.
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Margaret Ann Harvey Neve (1792-1903) - Find a...
The second ever verified supercentenarian, after Geert Adriaans Boomgaard. She was the first known person whose life spanned three centuries and the first validated female supercentenarian.www.findagrave.com
TIL that Uppercase X is ASCII code for 88
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ASCII Code 88 - Uppercase X
In the 7-bit ASCII character set, ASCII code 88 is represented by the character X, also known as the uppercase x.www.ascii-code.com
TILAmerica doesn't use A4 paper
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TIL In 1976, Ray Kurzweil unveiled the first reading machine for the blind, using optical character recognition and text-to-speech technology. After hearing about it on The Today Show, Stevie Wonder became its first user and a lifelong supporter.
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TIL in the 1870s, Steinway & Sons built a company town in a remote part of Queens to isolate their workers from the influence of anarchists and socialists in Lower Manhattan. That area later became Astoria, now considered the US’s premier socialist stronghold.
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TIL Home Alone was responsible for making Kevin the number one name in Germany in 1991. Later, the name became associated with low social status in the country, which led to the coining of the German word, Kevinismus, meaning the negative preconception German people give to trendy exotic names
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TIL Australia lost a prime minister in 1967. His body was never recovered, but he was presumed to have drowned. He is commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in Australia, and by the United States Navy ship, the USS Harold E. Holt
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TIL that "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash was largely inspired by a song called "Crescent City Blues" by Gordon Jenkins. However, Jenkins never heard of the song it became a smash hit after Cash re-released it 13 years later. Jenkins, afterwards, filed a lawsuit and settled with $75,000.
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TIL that the Chupa Chups logo was designed by none other than Salvador Dalí himself!
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The Chupa Chups Logo: Dali's Million-Dollar Masterpiece — Tsk Tsk Magazine
The fascinating story behind the iconic Chupa Chups logo designed by Salvador Dali in just one hour. Explore the history, influence, and international success of the famous lollipop brandTsk Tsk Magazine
TIL Mexican actress Silvia Pinal smuggled the last remaining copy of the film Virdiana out of Spain after the Vatican ordered all other copies destroyed
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How Silvia Pinal Challenged The Censorship From The Vatican And The Spanish Dictatorship And Saved 'Viridiana'
Pinal's bravery was key for the movie to survive censorship and get international acclaimAlicia Civita (Latin Times)
TIL Known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, in 1930 the United States enacted heavy tariffs that ultimately failed to achieve their intended outcome. Some economists attributed that action as leading to the Great Depression.
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TIL that Owls don’t have Eye “Balls” they have Eye “Tubes”. This is why they have to turn their whole heads instead of just their eyes.
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Owls Don't Have Eyeballs
You know how we (humans) have eyeballs? Well, owls don’t. They have eye tubes or cylinders, rod-shaped eyes that do not move in their sockets as eyeballs do. Instead, owls have to move their bodies or heads in order to look around.Office for Science and Society
TIL that in 1976, 3 men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren with the goal of ransoming them back for 5 million dollars. They tried to place the ransom call, but the line was busy, and they ended up falling asleep. By the time they woke up, the children had freed themselves and made it to safety.
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TIL in 1982 a BA 747 lost all four engines and had its windscreen sandblasted after flying through an Indonesian volcanic eruption. The pilot landed, at night and with limited visuals, and commented afterwards that it was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."
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TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary
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TIL that "floss" is actually an acronym standing for "Frictional Ligation Of Subgingival Spaces"
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TIL that in 2010, a crocodile that was being smuggled aboard an airplane got loose. When passengers scrambled to the front of the plane, it shifted the plane's center of gravity, causing them to crash. There was only one survivor.
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TIL that the actual landmass the state of Rhode Island is named after is more commonly known as Aquidneck Island.
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I had no idea that the BBC logo is visible in the video here.
I kinda assumed that, like the audio (discounting the descriptive track for the blind of course), the entire visual experience of a scene was diegetic, barring subtitles, onscreen text and so forth.
#TodayILearned. #BlindProblems
I kinda assumed that, like the audio (discounting the descriptive track for the blind of course), the entire visual experience of a scene was diegetic, barring subtitles, onscreen text and so forth.
#TodayILearned. #BlindProblems
TIL that Eratosthenes paid a guy to walk 800 kilometers to a tower to measure the length of it’s shadow & that’s how we found out the earth was round.
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This measurement is more than 2,200 years old, and its accuracy is remarkable
How did Greek librarian Eratosthenes accurately measure the circumference of Earth using a stick, a shadow, and a walk?Gareth Hutchens (ABC News)
TIL Philadelphia Cream Cheese is produced in New York, and always has been since it was invented by William Lawrence in 1872. He named his company Philadelphia to market off of the city's reputation for high quality dairy products.
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TIL A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). His mental state devolved to the point where he did not realise Luke was fictional. Mark Hamill agreed to dress up in character and meet the boy. He spent hours answering questions.
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TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type “im 12” and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for “being underage” thanks to twitch’s bots thinking that were underage
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the '12' incident
The day I got half of my chat permanently banned from Twitchexpand for linksSocials► Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/masayoshi► Discord- http://www.discord.gg/...YouTube
hmmm, must have been because of the "new Math." But wow.
Post from @todayilearned, TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."
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#TodayILearned that #Unix #stderr was created because early troff sent both document output and errors to the typesetting machine, wasting consumables! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT_(pho…
TIL that if you drive at 45 mph on a specific stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico, the road's rumble strips will play 'America the Beautiful.'
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A Stretch of Route 66 Will Play 'America the Beautiful' as You Drive to the Side
But you have to drive the speed limit.Jay Bennett (Popular Mechanics)
TIL legend has it that brownies were created accidentally by a forgetful baker who forgot to add baking powder to a chocolate cake batter
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The History of Brownies: From Accidental Invention to Beloved Treat - Cute Cakes Bakery & Café
Join us as we decode the history of brownies and key ingredients that contribute to the deliciousness of brownies. And if you're in search of delectable brownies, look no further than Cute Cakes bakery!Cute Cakes Bakery & Café
TIL: This year Arizona signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. Arizona legislators said Pluto was downgraded due to jealous Europeans. Arizona discovered it whereas all prior planets were discovered by Europeans. The bill was a bipartisan effort.
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TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.
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Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen
Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missionkottke.org
TIL theft is so rare in Japan that people often use wallets, purses, laptops or phones to save their seats in cafes and public places, leaving them unattended while they go buy food or go to the bathroom.
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The method to save a seat in Japan shows how awesomely safe the country is【Video】
Leaving your belongings unattended to save a seat doesn’t mean you’re sure to lose your stuff, experiment shows.Casey Baseel (SoraNews24 -Japan News-)
TIL in the audio universe, AM/FM radio is still by far the top medium in the US with a monthly reach of 91% of adults (18+). Followed by YouTube Music with 29% and Spotify with 25%.
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