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😱 Ark Invest just dropped some wild numbers In 2025, AI-generated words officially outnumbered words written by humans — for the first time in history. At this pace, AI will surpass the entire 500-year archive of human-written text before 2030. And it's already reshaping Telegram. Channels are quietly replacing human editors with automated tools — and one of the most interesting examples is @morty, built by the @maxim team. It finds relevant content on its own, writes it in the channel's voice, and leaves just one thing for the human: hit "Approve". More media projects are going AI-first. And according to Ark Invest, this is only the beginning.

On December 1, 1898, the world's first tape recorder was created. It was designed and built by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen. He called his invention a "recording telegraph".

Physicist Arnold Sommerfeld is the world record holder: he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 84 times, but never received the award.

Each player on a Stanley Cup winning team may spend 1 day with the trophy. Some sportsmen take a shower with it, others sleep with it. Once two hockey players had their children baptized in the sports trophy.

In addition to the Red Book, there is also the Black Book. It lists all animals and plants that are extinct or have disappeared.

Japanese gum comes with a pad of paper to wrap up your used gum and throw it away later in case there's no trash can nearby.

Pope Gregory IX believed that cats were the spawn of Satan and that time they were exterminated. As a result, the rat population increased so much that the bubonic plague broke out, killing 100 million people.

In the 19th century, people were afraid of being buried alive. Up until 1934, some companies produced special safe coffins fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial. For example, they were equipped with a string, which could be pulled by someone unintentionally buried alive, to ring a bell at topside.

If you are constantly desired to be ill, you have Nosophilia.

In the spring we breathe 1/3 faster then in the fall.

In China crocodiles used to be home guards like dogs.

The longest sex lasted about 15 hours.

30% of people are panicked about going to work.

Tetris was created by a soviet programmer Aleksey Pazhitnov in 1985.

There is an international union of bald people, established in 1965.

For centuries, nostalgia was considered a mental disorder, and doctors tried to treat it.

Miming at live performances is banned in China.

In 1840, a delegation of railroaders from Russia visited a major station in London called Vauxhall. The delegates decided that it is a common name for all railway stations and brought home a new word: "vokzal".

China has camps for Internet addicted people. The first one was founded in 2004 in Beijing. Since then, more than 3,000 "patients" have been treated there.

A fully loaded tanker going at medium speed needs about 12 minutes to come to a complete stop.