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TIL of Doozy Bots, an early attempt in 1991 to bring the Gundam anime franchise to the US. It involved a "Professor Doozy" turning a group of kids into various robots to fight other robots that went haywire. No networks picked up the series.

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9Y4eM TIL that out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election
d8dvZ TIL Magda Szubanski, the old lady married to the farmer in the film “Babe,” was actually 34 years old when the movie was made.
yW0l TIL the Aardvark is the lone species in its genus which is the lone genus in its family which is the lone family in its order.
BgvXr TIL David Nutt invented “alcosynth” — a synthetic version of alcohol without the negative toxins and hangovers. Nutt hopes alcosynth could replace traditional alcohol by 2050
4knYJ TIL of the Shakahola Forest Cult which directed over 300 members to starve themselves to death to meet jesus