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TIL: Harvard College and Harvard University are both accurate names (but not interchangeable); the former is the undergraduate program and the latter is the grad schools

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QJpoM TIL that the user agreement of a popular Japanese robot includes: the owner must not perform any sexual act on the robot, and the robot may not be used to harm humans or to send out spam emails. The company has also said that tampering with the robot to give it a sexier voice would be frowned upon
x6jLk TIL regular brown/dark raisins are just Thompson (white/green) grapes after drying normally. Golden raisins retain color by adding sulfur dioxide to stop browning caused by the polyphenol oxidase enzymes.
b9l07 TIL you are 100 times more likely to get bit by another human in New York City than you are to get bit by a shark at the beach
x69d1 TIL according to Rotten Tomatoes, the worst movie ever is the 2001 action flick “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” called “startlingly inept” and “without a hint of wit [or] coherence”
yP1l TIL that of the 20 richest women in the world, 19 of them inherited their money from either their husband or father. The first self made rich woman rings in at #17.