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TIL the Aston Martin factory only uses one robot; it applies adhesives to bond aluminium body panels together and is nicknamed “James Bonder”

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xVRL7 TIL basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a writer and has written several books set in the Sherlock Holmes universe
8Ao4 TIL President Garfield’s assassin purchased the gun he thought would look the best in a museum.
6v0l TIL that US veterans can have Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor, engraved in their headstones as a religious symbol.
yOdM TIL that oats and rye were weeds that evolved to imitate wheat and barley to confuse farmers, and only later were farmed on purpose
vPa58 TIL that the revolutionary idea by Julius Petri, creator of the Petri dish, was actually to cover the agar plate with a slightly bigger clear lid in order to see growth without contaminating the specimens.