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TIL in 2016 Police in Texas used a robot armed with a bomb to kill a sniper.

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8anKV TIL Jim Henson would yell out "blue sky" when a child came to sets. All the muppeteers knew this code and would chill out with bad language and the such.
D6MY TIL the Tunguska Event, an explosion in Siberia in 1908, was 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima, wiped out 80 million trees, and may have killed a total of 2 people
Yrr7 TIL of Sgt Thomas Durrant who posthumously received the Victoria Cross following recommendation by the commander of an enemy ship that he fought against. He repeatedly refused to leave his exposed Lewis gun, drawing enemy fire towards him, receiving severe injury until the enemies boarded his ship.
lVEA TIL that there is a family in Florence that has been keeping records of all of their ledgers, bills and correspondences in a continuous archive since 1362.
OpJL TIL the record for longest consecutive prison sentence ending with the prisoners release is 68 years. Paul Geidel was convicted of 2nd degree murder at the age of 17 and was released at the age of 86.