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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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BrOVK TIL carriage wheels have an inside and an outside. I always thought the spokes went straight down, but apparently they're slightly angled and egg-shaped.
KOM8a TIL chickens are great at reducing the tick population in a given area. Scientists estimate that a single chicken can eat 22113 ticks in a single season
5V9VR TIL that north of Castaic, CA, the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5 cross over for approximately 5 miles making it one of the only places in America where you drive on the left.
XEnD8 TIL that while French being extinct as a language is presented as joke in Futurama, in the French dubbing of the show, the extinct language is shown to be German instead.
PYaQZ TIL that the French military actually has the best military record of the last 800 years