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TIL Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech created Hathaani - a robotic violinist designed to play Carnatic music

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9YR76 TIL about "Homegrown National Park," an effort to encourage Americans to plant as many native plants as possible everywhere on their property to help bring back the continent's biodiversity
6EQJZ TIL When the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil.
v1kLx TIL the name Woodchuck for groundhogs doesn't have anything to do with wood. It's thought to be a corruption of the Native American words wejack, woodshaw, or woodchoock. It may have its roots in the Algonquian (or perhaps Narragansett) name for the animal: wuchak.
wLYR7 TIL The Brave Little Toaster very nearly took home the top award at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival, but the judges were afraid that the festival would lose respect by picking a cartoon
jkwE TIL a woman in Florida spent six years sitting on a couch. She died during surgery attempting to remove her after her skin grafted into the fabric.