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TIL That through a series of experiments in the Polytechnic Institute of New York, a robotic fish ended up becoming the leader of a school of live fish.

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xVMbg TIL to get around a law forbidding state banishment, Georgia judges can ban criminals from 158 of the 159 state counties. They send people to Echols County which is so boring, criminals choose to leave the state rather than live there
JDpj TIL Scientology has a child labor camp in the heart of Suburban Australia, where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay.
8nO8 TIL Japanese monks mummified themselves while still alive. The practice required the mummifying monk to eat only nuts, buds, and roots for at least three years. When death was near his disciples would put him into a box at the bottom of pit, pack charcoal around the box and bury their master alive.
xww TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.
xVDDD TIL of "yellow journalism" which present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines.