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TIL Casa Bonita needs to monitor the airing of the South Park episode because it causes an influx of customers.

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XalP TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions
GkJG TIL 114 billionaires have pledged to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy as part of a project led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.(X-post from worldnews)
QJaKk TIL A study of robot aesthetics has found non-human-like machines gather positive emotional responses from viewers, while humanoid objects that imperfectly resemble human beings produces feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. This dip in positive responses is called the Uncanny Valley.
VMg1D TIL Cesar Millan, aka "Dog Whisperer," had Jada Smith, wife of Will Smith, as one of his first clients. She was satisfied so much she paid for one year of English tutoring so he can be aired on US television.
xV8v0 TIL that the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 amateur radio satellite failed in 1981 due to a short circuit in the batteries and was thought dead. But Polish anticommunists found that it still worked when it was exposed to sunlight -- and used it to covertly send messages to activists in other cities and the West.