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TIL researchers at U of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors. It does so by "cheating", using a high-speed camera to recognize the shape within 1 millisecond.

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wLOd1 TIL Even though FRIENDS went off-air 14 years ago, today Warner Bros. makes about $1 billion each year from the show through syndication revenue. The six main actors who get 2% of the revenue take home $20 million each every year without doing anything.
E57X TIL Muhammad Ali stopped a man from trying to kill himself (by jumping off a building) and he was originally named in honor of a white abolitionist.
GYGQj TIL: In the 1920s, fashion-designer Coco Chanel accidentally got sunburnt while visiting the French Riviera, she returned home with a sun tan. Because of Coco’s status and the longing for her lifestyle by other members of society, tanned skin became seen as fashionable, healthy, and luxurious.
YQ9r TIL: The constitutions of 7 states (AR,MD,MS,NC,SC,TN,TX) specifically ban atheists from holding public office
bWGQ TIL the Spartans used cumbersome, impractical iron sticks as currency “so as to discourage the pursuit of wealth”