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TIL about the uncanny valley, which describes the unsettling feeling caused by a robot or computer generated model that looks almost human but is not convincing enough to look like an actual human

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YpYdv TIL that the entire surface area of the moon (14.6 million sq. miles/38 million sq. km) is smaller than the land area of Asia (17.2 million square miles/44.5 million square km).
a8Wlb TIL In 1963 Sean Connery, filming From Russia with Love in Italy, played roullete at the casino in Saint-Vincent. He won the equivalent of $200,000 after betting on 17, 3 times consecutively. Odds being 1:50653
p8pMG TIL the four-term Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, famous for his hard-line segregationist views and his four presidential campaigns, renounced his past racial views and ran for his final term in 1982, winning with over 90% of the Black vote.
ep7mn TIL The first Marvel film was…Howard the Duck
9wJOp TIL in 1958 the USAF lost a nuclear bomb in the waters off Georgia as the result of a mid-air collision. It has never been found.