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TIL that advanced robotics startup RoboKind is working with up to 50 school districts to subsidize $500,000 in software development education.

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OOK7 TIL in Burma, drunk driving is punishable by either six months in jail, or USD 50 cents fine, or both.
DA4e TIL Woody Harrelson’s father was an organised crime figure who, in 1982, confessed to the assassination of JFK.
l1BV TIL that the saucer under coffee cups was originally used to pour out the coffee and let it cool. Then people slurped the coffee from the saucer.
v1vYR TIL the Rocky Mountain Locust once formed a swarm the size of California only to go extinct 30 years later
Z8mrp TIL of Efunroye Tinubu, a powerful slave trader in 19th century Nigeria. She was thought to have been so unapologetic and profit minded, she attempted to subvert a British anti-slavery treaty and, after a slave trade went wrong, said she: "would rather drown the slaves than sell them at a discount."