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TIL that Saudi Arabia is the first ever country to grant a citizenship to a robot.

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x6Bwk TIL that BBC News is available in Pidgin English
v1dXB TIL that 9 out of 10 people who are stopped from committing suicide do not kill themselves at a later date.
xyjo TIL Doris “Granny D” Haddock was a political activist who walked over 3000 miles around the age of 90 to advocate for a single cause: campaign finance reform.
0JL5 TIL that when a Russian mobster asked a friend in government if it was possible to buy a military submarine he was asked “with missiles or without missiles?”
16k9X TIL Fritz Lang’s film “Woman in the Moon” is often cited as the first occurrence in media of the "countdown to zero" before a rocket launch. It was so influential that the first successfully launched V-2 rocket at the rocket facility in Peenemünde had the Frau im Mond logo painted on its base.