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TIL It is predicted the Oil Age will end in 2059

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neVE9 TIL about the first robot. The servant of Philon was an ancient Greek humanoid figure capable of automatically filling a wine cup when placed in its hand. It accomplished its task using a pneumatic system that was very advanced for its time.
VZJG TIL a bird that is endemic to the Amazon Basin called the Hoatzin is hatched with claws on its wings; A genetic remnant that is evidence of birds dinosaurean lineage.
R74l9 TIL Jet Li's Once upon a time in China and Jackie Chan's Drunken Master are just 2 of over over 100 films and TV series made about a real martial artist, Wong Fei-Hung.
wJlo TIL “Roasted Nuts” was the paper headline for when a mental hospital caught on fire.
xVNR0 TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.