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TIL Godzilla was originally created as a metaphor for the the relationship between humans and nuclear weapons. Its skin is not based on reptile scales but the burn wounds found on the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.

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9YPWX 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
mxrlx TIL that Haiti and Liechtenstein had the same flag at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,which prompted Liechtenstein to add a crown to theirs the following year.
0kKp TIL Lake Titicaca eventually drains into Lake Poopo
l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.
v8wR TIL the world is running out of chocolate, and the world’s top producers predict that by 2030, we will have a chocolate deficit of over 2 million metric tons.