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TIL Kennedy half dollar coins have been back in general circulation since 2021.

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QJpoM TIL that the user agreement of a popular Japanese robot includes: the owner must not perform any sexual act on the robot, and the robot may not be used to harm humans or to send out spam emails. The company has also said that tampering with the robot to give it a sexier voice would be frowned upon
6EaEW TIL Tremont Street subway in Boston is the oldest underground rail in North America. Third oldest in the world after London and Budapest.
OGQKa TIL Forest Whitaker has an identical twin brother who also happens to an actor!
yY8M TIL Poor white southerners in American South, who were viewed in the North as lazy and stupid, were actually victim to a hookworm epidemic that turned them into listless imbeciles. Up to 40% were infected in the early 1900s.
ZlNa TIL: In the early 19th century, the East India Company, had cut off the hands of hundreds of weavers in Bengal in order to destroy the indigenous weaving industry in favor of British textile imports.