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TIL scientists at Brown University are developing a robot cat that may one day help cure loneliness among senior citizens. It doesn't need food, exercise, or a litter box, but it can purr on demand and remind them when it's time to take their meds

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rNLbo TIL of the January 7th, 1994 crash of United Express Flight 6291. The plane was on approach to land when it struck a stand of trees, causing it to crash into a warehouse. Only 3 passengers survived after they escaped through a Crack in the fuselage. The rest died on impact or burned up.
4Wm6 TIL: Life expectancy of a black male in D.C. is 66.53 the lowest in the country and the life expectancy for a white man in D.C. Is 84.29 the highest in the country.
Exlx TIL that Gandhi advocated Great Britain to surrender to Hitler and Mussolini. “If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will let them… you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered.”
8aJOL TIL The 'Space Window' at Washington National Cathedral features a moon rock returned to Earth by Neil Armstrong and his Apollo 11 crew. The cathedral hosted a memorial service for Armstrong in 2012 to mark the passing of the first moonwalker
5VYRk TIL A lab in Guangzhou, China breeds infertile mosquitoes in a lab and releases them to slow the spread of diseases like Zika and Malaria.