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TIL that the first person in recorded history to be killed by a robot was a factory worker at the Ford Motor Company in 1979.

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jNYyp TIL professional baseball player Rupert Mills played a non-existent 1916 season for his disbanded Federal League team by showing up to the empty ballpark every day, ready to play, in order to earn his salary
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rgAM TIL: President James A. Garfield’s killer Charles J. Guiteau bought a revolver with an Ivory grip over a cheaper wooden grip because he thought it would look better as a museum piece after the Assassination.
OKx4 TIL “knock on wood” derived from Pagans touching, tapping or knocking on trees believing they were the homes of fairies and dryads who would wake and bless them with luck.
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