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TIL more Mexicans leaving than coming to the U.S.
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TIL: You gag when someone else barfs because we lived in packs and ate the same food, so when someone gets sick and vomits, it was advantageous for all the rest to do the same.
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TIL the cast of Friends earned at least $88,460,000 over its 10 seasons. EACH. (This does not include syndication royalties negotiated from the 5th season onwards)
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TIL about Pedro Rodrigues Filho, the killer who only targetted at criminals and those had wronged him. He was sentenced 126 years imprisonment, but since he kept killing criminals during his time in prison, his sentences was raised to 400 years.
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TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
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TIL Galileo sent two coded message to Keppler, that Saturn has rings, and that Venus has phases (circles the sun, not the earth), which Keppler incorrectly decoded as Mars has two moons and Jupiter has a big red spot. Although not what Galileo had written, both would later be proven true.