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TIL Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot, made it all the way across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands but failed to do the same in the U.S. because it was immediately beheaded in Philadelphia.

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LVmQ TIL Jason Statham was an Olympic diver on the British national diving team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992.
nBXG TIL In 1997, there was a contest to win a fully-furnished exact replica of the “Simpsons” house in Clark County, Nev. The winner could choose to either stay in the home or trade it for $75,000. The winner took the money. The house was ultimately stripped of its “Simpsons” décor before being sold.
E1XVo TIL: the Vice President of the United States was determined by the 2nd most electoral votes (the runner up for presidential ticket). This stopped when Jefferson and Burr ran against each other (1800).
5MJQ TIL greeting cards that play music contain mercury, making them unsafe to discard in the normal trash.
yVY8e TIL about the QWERTY Effect, which suggests that words typed with more right-hand letters on a QWERTY keyboard are perceived as more positive.