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TIL Coyotes run faster than Roadrunners.

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vN94 TIL a teenager secretly lived at AOL’s headquarters for two months. People just assumed he was working late.
aOpN TIL the editors of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule pipe their footage through a videocassette recorder, and then hit the machine to simulate jumpy synchronization, to give it that poor quality feel.
ADp7g TIL that the first Olympics had an event called Pankration, a mix of wrestling and boxing where the only restrictions were of biting/gouging. Breaking digits and dislocating limbs was common, the battle only ending in death/surrender. The Greeks invented sports medicine in response to this event.
80QG TIL during prohibition, Congress had their own bootlegger so senators and congressmen could still drink alcohol.
6ENA7 TIL Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979.