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Strange News: Fast Food Founder Buys Everyone Lottery Tickets, Holes in the Ocean Floor, Scary Algorithm Predicts Crime with 90% Accuracy

Strange News: Fast Food Founder Buys Everyone Lottery Tickets, Holes in the Ocean Floor, Scary Algorithm Predicts Crime with 90% Accuracy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

August 1, 202252m 29s

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Show Notes

The founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers buys a lottery ticket for all 50,000 of his employees. Observers are baffled by a series of mysterious holes in the ocean floor. Perhaps most disturbingly, a new algorithm created over at the University of Chicago seems to accurately predict crimes a week before they occur -- and exposes deep biases in law enforcement. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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