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TIL of xenobots; Synthetic lifeforms designed by AI which are part robot, part organism, the size of a grain of sand and capable of performing tasks such as pushing payloads, cleaning debris, working together in swarms and even reproduce new xenobots

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gMe9L TIL FDR died just as they were making a portrait of him, leaving the portrait incomplete.
W7MaN TIL Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin" when John Wilkes Booth killed him. Booth timed the shooting with the show's funniest moment so that the crowd's laughter would drown out the sound of the shooting.
JY7eV TIL about Impostor syndrome, a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".Those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and and do not deserve all they have achieved.
NY8J TIL that gun laws in Japan are so strict that even when a police officer killed himself with one he was still charged.
m1wOR TIL that while each brain hemisphere controls half the body, both hemispheres see from both eyes, but each only sees the left or right half of each image from each eye