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TIL Dr. Seuss wrote Green eggs and ham on a dare to use less than 50 different words. Tomorrow’s his bday.

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M9PA TIL: An Indian will spend one-fifth of this life’s earning on a wedding ceremony
b96j7 TIL in 2015 James McElvar, a Scotsman, decided to wear all the clothes from his bag (12 layers of clothing!) during a flight to avoid taking the bag and paying a £45 baggage fee. He fell ill during the flight; paramedics said he was "lucky to be alive".
E987 TIL the first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970. After landing on Venus, the craft sent back only 23 minutes of weak data, presumably because it landed on its side.
1aE0O TIL Pumpkin fruits are a type of botanical berry known as a pepo.
y4Rw TIL the British Standards Institute has issued standards for the ethical design of robots, declaring that robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans and warning against robots that lack respect for cultural diversity or pluralism.