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TIL about "Hedonometer," a tool that measures happiness levels in different regions by analyzing tweets.

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OGga TIL there’s a japanese company named Cyberdyne that invented a strength augmenting robotic exoskeleton. They named it HAL.
DnJg TIL that in the Sailor Moon universe, there was an openly homosexual character named Sailor Uranus, and her girlfriend was Sailor Neptune.
QJw5p TIL that Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony for convicts who comitted new offences after they had arrived in Australia.
BB6W TIL that chickens have a three digit hand and a tail while in embryo and genes trigger their re-absorption. Scientists are trying to isolate and deactivate these to create a chickenosaurus.
l7jX1 TIL there area an estimated half a million red wood trees in the UK (most are believed to be giant redwoods but also include coastal redwoods and dawn redwoods). And despite being native to California, they seem to be thriving.