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2023-04-13

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ChatGPT
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ChatGPT

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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. It was released in November 2022. It uses generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), such as GPT-5.2, to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by …

Drake Bell
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Drake Bell
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Jared Drake Bell is an American actor and musician. Born in Newport Beach, California, he began his career as a child ac…

Cleopatra
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Cleopatra
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom from 51 to 30 BC and the last active pharaoh of ancient…

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On This Day

10 events
2017
War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb used in combat.
2009
Kamień_Pomorski_homeless_hostel_fire
Twenty-three people died in a fire at a homeless hostel in Kamień Pomorski; it was Poland's deadliest fire since 1980.
2009
Andrew_Hussie
Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and concluded on the same day in 2016.
1997
Tiger_Woods
In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.
1976
Lapua_Cartridge_Factory_explosion
Forty people died in an explosion at an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland.
1973
Catch_a_Fire
Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released.
1958
Cold_War
In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn (pictured) won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1956
Vietnamese_National_Army
The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military commander of the religious sect Hòa Hảo, which ran a de facto state in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
1953
Ian_Fleming
Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published as the first work to feature the British spy character James Bond.
1953
Central_Intelligence_Agency
The CIA began Project MKUltra, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.

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