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TIL Self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time to check out than customers in standard checkout lanes

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QJDdE TIL the word "robot" was coined for a 1920 Czech play about a robot rebellion (which ends poorly for the human race). The word comes from the Czech "robota" meaning "forced labor".
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