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TIL Boston Dynamics was acquired by Hyundai Motor Group in 2020. In 2022 the company signed a pledge saying it would not weaponise any of its robots.

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0wYkA TIL Nicosia, Cyprus is the only capital city in the world divided between two separate countries. Furthermore, both countries claim it as their capital making it also the only city in the world that is the capital for more than one nation.
xVAr0 TIL After Paula Wolff (Hitler's sister) was released from American custody, she moved to Germany and became a recluse. She was looked after by surviving members of the SS and her brother's inner circle.
OGEV7 TIL that The Official Register Of Color Names (ORCN) includes many colors including piss yellow
dDXgE TIL French personalities the Bogdanoff twins were the grandsons of Roland Hayes, one of the first successful Black classical composers. A Czech countess, Bertha Krakowska-Kolowrat, had an affair with Hayes, resulting in the birth of the twins' mother and Bertha's expulsion from the nobility.
16orP TIL: That the actor Tom Hanks is distant cousin of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln. Hanks also narrated a 2011 documentary about the former President, entitled Killing Lincoln.