8eV14 TIL in April 2022, Anthropic, maker of Claude AI, announced it had received $580 million in funding, including a $500 million investment from FTX under the leadership of Sam Bankman-Fried (currently in prison).
P1ynV TIL that many countries force citizens to pay an annual licensing fee to own a television.
epYy5 TIL OpenAI is reportedly exploring a unified desktop interface that could integrate multiple AI-driven tasks into a single application
VB9O4 TIL Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, who killed John F. Kennedy, is still alive and reportedly lives in Dallas
X0RVj TIL accidentally that gail.com exists and receives huge number of visits when users mistype Gmail.com
OGm47 TIL If a person saved $1M dollars a day, from the year 0000 until 2026... they still wouldn't have $1T.
69O1m TIL people still spread the myth that doctors believed babies dont feel pain until the 1980s
woQy6 TIL the plane that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb was called Bockscar. Not Boxcar.
R5QW9 TIL that doctors didn't think babies could feel pain till the 1980s
W7WXd TIL in 1829 a group of convicts headed to Australia mutinied the crew and took command of the ship, the Cyprus. They sailed away and wound up in Japan, in what became recognized as the first time a ship visited Japan from Australian waters. The Japanese attacked and sent away the convicts.
9we57 TIL of Kleptocnidy, in which one organism will take and make use of the cnidocytes (stingers) of their prey. Sequestered stingers are used for defense or to capture prey. Some of the organisms that use kleptocnidy are comb jellies, flatworms and nudibranchs (sea slugs).
nW1yB TIL nearly 80% of US workers report that they have been victims of 'career catfishing’ from employers. Which in this context, the term describes when a company misrepresents a job, their company culture, or compensation to lure in candidates.