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TIL of HitchBOT, a robot designed to rely on humans to get from place to place. It successfully hitched rides across Canada and Germany before attempting to thumb its way from Boston to San Francisco. The experiment ended in Philadelphia when vandals left HitchBOT decapitated on a street corner.

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jm7j TIL While 71% of Americans believe in hell, only half of one per cent think that they are likely to end up there
4kAJw TIL that Val Kilmer and Rob Lowe both declined the role of Paul Atreides in the 1984 Film “Dune” (the role went to Kyle MacLachlan). Val Kilmer had yet to appear in a film production, his debut ended up being in the 1984 comedy “Top Secret”.
ADj1g TIL in the 90s Arnold Schwarzenegger pitched a medieval epic but when the studio wanted budget guarantees the director responded, “guarantees don’t happen and if anyone promises guarantees they’re lying!” So, the studio opted for a "cheaper" action movie...which became expensive and bankrupted them.
KOoOQ TIL that in the original Wizard of Oz book, Dorothy wears Silver Slippers, not ruby. The color of the shoes was changed to red to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process used in big-budget Hollywood films of the era.
X09Zr TIL that The Piltdown man, found by Charles Dawson in England from 1910–1912 and thought to be a key human-ape link, was revealed in 1953–54 as a hoax made from a modern human skull, an orangutan jaw, and a chimpanzee tooth, deliberately faked to trick scientists.