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TIL that automatons have been in existence since Ancient Greece.

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b6roZ TIL Uranus had been observed and catalogued multiple times going as far back as 128 BCE. However, due to its very slow orbit and dimness it was always misclassified as a star until 1781. The discovery that it was actually a planet effectively doubled the size of the known solar system.
P4Qn TIL: in 2011 33% of all US divorce filings contained the word “FACEBOOK”
9Y7WG TIL Deglazing: What it Is and Why To Do It. Deglazing is a fancy and intimidating word that means to pour some cold liquid into a very hot pan to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Those brown bits are where all the flavors are, and it is called “fond.”
kO695 TIL: China has a strong PC gaming community as consoles were illegal for 15 years until 2015 due to fears of negative mental development.
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