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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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X0vVr TIL Canada's original gothic Parliament Building, including the Victoria Tower, was destroyed by fire in 1916. Only the Library survived intact, by an employee who closed the iron doors connecting the Library to the rest of the building
V9Ym TIL the first modern attempt at restricting smoking was imposed by the then German government in every university, post office, military hospital, and Nazi Party office, under the auspices of Karl Astel’s Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research, created in 1941 under orders from Adolf Hitler.
Dpjj TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy was the technical expert on the television show BattleBots.
ar7b TIL in Chinese and Japanese, diabetes translates literally to “sugar pee sickness”.
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