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TIL of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot which successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but while attempting to hitchhike across the United States, it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.

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W7VOY TIL that Coronation Chicken isn't an ancient dish from the East but was developed for Elizabeth II's accession to the throne in 1953.
wLxR7 TIL in 1985 the US tested a robotic anti-aircraft tank, the M247 Sergeant York. The tank malfunctioned and locked its guns onto a review stand packed with top generals. Mercifully it didn't fire, but did subsequently attack a portable toilet instead of a target drone.
697W7 TIL that after Zaire, now known as DR Congo, lost all their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the players were forbidden to leave their home country, so that they couldn't play for European clubs with the offers that came in after the World Cup
wojMJ TIL The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels. The cornea is the clear part of the eye that covers the pupil and other parts of the eye. It gets its oxygen directly from the atmosphere. The other organ is cartilage.
lonY1 TIL Of Michael Malloy, aka Iron Mike, a man who survived being intentionally alcohol poisoned, having cold water poured on him in the snow and being left alone, and being run over twice by a group trying to collect his life insurance