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TIL that when David Attenborough's series "Blue Planet II" aired in 2017, so many Chinese fans downloaded the programme on the country’s online Tencent Video channel that the internet in China temporarily slowed down

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pYnnN TIL that baby chickens imprinting on a robot that was made to randomly move in a room affected the robots movements. This means that hoping for a song in a playlist on shuffle and getting that same song like you were hoping for may not be a coincidence.
LkalP TIL that Jill Dando, presenter for the BBC "unsolved crime" series Crimewatch, was murdered during her time as host for the show. Crimewatch reconstructed her murder and a suspect was convicted. However, the conviction was overturned, he was acquitted upon retrial, and the case remains unsolved.
VBnZB TIL an early free trade agreement between the US and Canada was terminated by the US partly because of American anger towards the British's unofficial support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
bYeN TIL Life’s origins may be older than the earth itself
nWXBb TIL a nuclear accident at SL-1 created a burst of steam so powerful that a piston-like effect threw the whole 26 000 pound nuclear reactor vessel over nine feet upward. The cause of the incident isn't known because the workers didn't explain why they removed a necessary rod prior to the explosion.