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TIL that Sardines is not a name for any kind of fish. It only refers to small fishes packed in cans in water/sauces.

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KOrxE TIL from 1996-2000, a group of students at MIT made and wrote multiple papers about a robotic flamingo. Dubbed the "Spring Flamingo", it was made to teach them complex robotics and show how feet and actuated ankles helped bipedal walking
kO54 TIL the CIA tested LSD on citizens in the USA and Canada unbeknownst to them. Is this common knowledge now? (I am Australian, and would love to know more)
1lNO TIL that the best selling item at Wal-Marts are bananas
xv8D TIL in Asian languages such as Chinese, dyslexia is much less common, and involves different brain mechanism than dyslexia in western languages.
WkAV4 TIL that Ewan McGregor's character in Black Hawk Down is fictionally named because the real person was convicted of child molestation in 1999. The Pentagon gave permission to use actual Army Black Hawks in the movie if the producers agreed to change the name from John Stebbins to 'John Grimes'.