@TBD4TIL Steve Jobs typed letter to a fan who had requested an autograph from him, the letter ended up selling at auction for $400k@Kiniaczu1The handwritten signature, I love this lol
@dsir11TIL that lemons are not a naturally occurring fruit - they're a hybrid of a bitter orange and citron, cultivated by humans.en.wikipedia.org@Celestriel3I guess life doesn't actualy give you lemons 😂
@Juddah15TIL that in 1800 Alexander von Humboldt found a pet parrot in Amazonia that was the last "speaker" of an extinct language. He documented what it said, and his notes are the only trace of this languagementalfloss.com@Maadvillain1That's wild@xfit1Imagine your cultures languge exists on through a parrot 😂
@dsir11TIL the “20Q” (20 questions) handheld game, a toy released in 2003 actually used a basic implementation of an AI neural network. It used training data gathered from users of a web-browser based implementation of the game which launched in 1994.en.wikipedia.org@dsirOP11I remember I had one of these when I was a kid and it was shockingly accurate. Pretty cool to see that it actually used a form of a nureal network to accomplish its guesses.
@Jbox6TIL no child has been harmed or killed by poisoned or dangerous Halloween candy"a comprehensive 1985 study of 30 years of alleged poisoning did not find even a single confirmed incident of a child’s death, or even serious injury"https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/health/halloween-candy-panic-conversation-wellness/index.html
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