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TIL of a 240 year old robot boy called "The Writer" - ancestor to the computer and can be "programmed" to write 40 character sentences

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REPQ TIL that there’s an hourglass in Budapest that takes a full year to run out. It takes four people almost an hour to turn it.
Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed
eRXD TIL that the bunker where Hitler committed suicide has been converted into a playground.
l7vwB TIL About the creaky voice accent which became more common in the speech of young female speakers of American English in the early 21st century; college-age Americans perceived female creaky voice as "hesitant, nonaggressive, and informal but also educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile."
eYNb TIL that there is a one-room hotel near Antwerp Belgium that is a gigantic scale model of a human colon and anus. Originally created as a work of art, it is realistic in every way including color, veins and a gigantic puckered sphincter.