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TIL The Wild West only lasted around 30 years.
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TIL that the Romans were among the first to introduce a standardized system of measuring time through hours. But they didn't have a fixed hour duration throughout the entire year. Instead, they adjusted the length of an hour based on the length of daylight. A winter hr was shorter than a summer hr.
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TIL that there is a robot baby seal from Japan designed as therapy for dementia patients. It responds to touch and voices and even gets sleepy at night.
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TIL that In Australia, a crocodile believed to be "part-albino" and nicknamed by people in the area as "Michael Jackson", attacked and killed a man.
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TIL Maria Shriver said to her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger in regards to his movie Red Sonja, “If this doesn’t kill your career, nothing will”.
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TIL under the care of the unconventional Dr. Theodor Morell, from 1936 to 1945 Adolf Hitler was administered 74 different medical substances (in 28 different mixtures) for various ailments, including an injection of methamphetamine to fight grogginess.