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TIL The robot in Rocky IV was originally built to help kids with autism and its success with Stallone’s own autistic son is how it ended up in the movie

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og6A TIL that Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant
mxm6p TIL that a group of orcas (aka killer whales) will attack an adult blue whale, simply for their own entertainment. They have virtually no chance of killing it, nor do they really try.
DQBZv TIL Although the universe is only 14 billion years old, it is 92 billion light years wide
J1XX1 TIL humans were thought to be the only host species susceptible to leprosy until cases were identified in nine-banded armadillos and now Eurasian red squirrels in the UK have been added as a reservoir. 200,000 new human cases of leprosy a year are still recorded but the exact mechanism is unknown.
X0Lnr TIL That Easter Can Happen On March