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TIL Chevy Chase’s real name is “Cornelius Crane Chase”
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TIL that in September 1939 the last thing BBC television aired before going off the air was a Mickey Mouse cartoon. When broadcasts resumed in 1946, the same cartoon was replayed.
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TIL the British Standards Institute has issued standards for the ethical design of robots, declaring that robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans and warning against robots that lack respect for cultural diversity or pluralism.
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TIL In 1793, The French government implemented a new calendar, based on decimals. It had 10 days per week, 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute. The experiment lasted 12 years, failing to gain wider acceptance.
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TIL that about 30,000, or 24% of the world's cranes, are currently operating in Dubai
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TIL that the US Gov’t took the land on which Mt Rushmore was built from the Sioux nation, and developed Mt. Rushmore on sacred Sioux grounds without any compensation. The US Gov’t has offered over 1 Billion Dollars in compensation, but the Sioux refuse to take it, saying the land was never for sale.