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TIL that on the 2nd April 2014 a bomb exploded in the bombers face because of daylight saving time

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KNb9 TIL: Planned Parenthood rejected a $500,000 donation for the naming rights of a clinic in Texas where their funding is poor. Why? The would-be donor was Tucker Max.
kO8we TIL in the 1990s, the Galapagos Conservancy launched Project Isabela, an all out war against 250,000 goats in the Galapagos Islands to save the dwindling population of Galapagos tortoises, and involved snipers picking goats off from helicopters. It ended up restoring the population of the tortoises.
NrWE TIL people who go to bed late are likely to be more intelligent than those who go to bed early
KOrxE TIL from 1996-2000, a group of students at MIT made and wrote multiple papers about a robotic flamingo. Dubbed the "Spring Flamingo", it was made to teach them complex robotics and show how feet and actuated ankles helped bipedal walking
kOlkB TIL the Nintendo 64 is named "64" because of it`s processor architecture, this being of 64 bits