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TIL Japan has been the top robot exporter in the world, with its share being 30.6% in 2023

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l7XBr TIL on 21 July 1950, An elephant called Tuffi fell 12 metres (39 ft) down from the Wuppertal Suspension Monorail into the River Wupper in West Germany
0wB6p TIL About James Hogue, an American conman who posed as a self-taught orphan and was admitted into Princeton University, where he participated in the track and eating clubs. His con was exposed, after a former classmate at Palo Alto High School recognized him, where he had previously posed as a teen.
8aJZ8 TIL that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth
er05 TIL Jon Benjamin, voice actor know for Archer and Bob’s Burger has released a Jazz Album featuring him on piano despite having zero experience. Some of the tracks include “I Can’t Play Piano” and “Well, I Should Have..[Learned how to play Piano]”
5YZBR TIL that the first black woman to travel to space was Mae Jemison, who was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992. She later appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", making her the first person to have been on Star Trek and in space IRL.