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TIL in 2016, a K5 security robot accidentally ran over a 16-month-old toddler and then drove off, in what’s surely one of the first robotic hit and runs.

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ZRbp TIL that the premise for the game GTA was stumbled upon by testers through a glitch during the creation of a game called Race'n'Chase. The glitch opened up the linear gameplay of Race'n'Chase to an open world with “non-stop crashing”. Developers abandoned Race'n'Chase and turned it into GTA.
QX59 TIL the word Dinner comes from the old French word Disner, which meant “Breakfast”.
j6BNp TIL 31 out of the 46 US presidents served in the military
4kdBX TIL The bands Fountains of Wayne (self-titled) and Flamingoes (Plastic Jewels) released albums with the exact same cover photo within two weeks of each other in 1996. Unbeknownst to either band, the photographer Nick Wappington had licensed the picture to both bands.
BAOy TIL that when he was 26, Pete Maravich said “I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40” in an interview. He went on to play 10 years in the NBA, and died of a heart attack at age 40.