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TIL that there is a robot baby seal from Japan designed as therapy for dementia patients. It responds to touch and voices and even gets sleepy at night.

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kO51d TIL that Saint Valentine is not only the patron saint of love, but also of beekeeping. This puts a different perspective of the common Valentine's Day phrase "Bee Mine".
mxl0v TIL that the original lyrics in Little Richard’s song “Tutti Frutti” were changed from “Tutti Frutti, Loose Booty” to “Tutti Frutti, aw rooty” because the term “Loose booty” was considered too scandalous.
vD5x TIL at 15 calories per teaspoon, cough syrup has 11 times the calories of Coca Cola.
Xy7E TIL In studying its buyers about 10 years ago, Subaru found that an unusually large share of owners in Northampton, Mass., were women. It conducted a focus group and discovered that many of them were lesbians, says John Nash, president of the Moon City Productions advertising agency.
16BDV TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal