TIL there are social media platforms for AI agents

TIL about CAPTCHA farms: AI pays humans pennies to prove they’re human

The third highest-ranking person (highest-ranking woman) in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy is a high-ranking Chinese cadre and has, as a result, been accused of "collaborating" with China

Keith Richards wrote 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' in his sleep

TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)

TIL about VaulWarden through Disroot

TIL github doesnt support IPv6

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world (by a lot)

TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range

TIL: A Bob the Builder version of Mambo No. 5 topped the UK charts, before being removed from radio play due to its lyrics about building construction and that it was charting during September 2001

The FSW-0 recoverable satellite used wood as its heat-shield

TIL about OnionShare, an Open Source Hosting, File Sharing, and Chatting Application Available on All Major Platforms

TIL that Reddit has achievements

You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

TIL that in New York, you don't actually need a valid driver’s license to own a car

TIL of Dawson disease, a horrific complication of measles

TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery

TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism

TIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.

TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.

TIL about The Lobby, a 2017 Docuseries about AIPAC, whose second series was blocked

TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire.

Today I learned that the top 10% of earners in the US account for almost 50% of consumption

TIL why the USA is borked in terms of rare earths

TIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homeless

TIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike

TIL that Sacramento CA hosts a heavy metal and rock festival every year.

A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa

TIL there are extensions to automatically expand abbreviations in Firefox

TIL Girls of the Kayan tribe start wearing neck rings at around 5 years old. The rings can stretch their necks to a length of about 15 inches (38 cm).

Stainless steel can self-heal a bit

TIL of the Battle of Athens (1946)

TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907

TIL: In 1979 Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was assassinated during a dinner, the gun jammed at the 3rd shot.

TIL In 1975, the US overthrew the democratically elected leader of Australia for his opposition to the war on Vietnam.

Today I learned: Epstein Island had an area of 28 ha

TIL the United States has 94 nuclear power plants.

TIL zombo.com still exists, and no longer requires flash

TiL that only seven countries make up more than half of the world's human population

TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water.

Today I learned that Barilla created Spotify playlists that are the length of time needed to cook pasta to al dente

Today I learned about the "village homosexual" in Tahitian culture who is always available when there are no women.

TIL that Taiwan isn't the only Chinese province controlled by the Republic of China

The worlds largest Super-bulldozer was never used

TIL there are "libraries" in London where you can borrow gadgets

TIL ska originated in the 1950s and is the precursor to reggae