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TIL A pizza company, Zume Pizza uses robots for many stages of pizza production. The pizzas are cooked en route in a van equipped with 56 GPS-equipped automated ovens, timed to be ready shortly before arrival at the address, and are then sliced by a self-cleaning robot cutter.

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oB6mr TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.
p8J8Z TIL it is theoretically possible to send a paper plane from the ISS to earth, without the planes burning up on reentry. An experiment was scheduled, but unfortunately cancelled.
oR44W TIL if there are complications getting a baby to come out, they will use a vacuum. It's called a "vacuum extraction delivery".
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ANpd7 TIL the band WAR, the first black band booked on the Sunset Strip, Why Can't We Be Friends is about the absurdity of judging others based on our differences. "I don't judge you by your name, your color, or your money. I judge you by whether or not you're an exemplary person."