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TIL 18-year-old Joshua Browder created a ‘robot lawyer’ that allows people to get free, custom-generated legal documents to appeal their wrongly issued parking fines. It’s estimated that his service has already saved users $3 million.

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j9yv TIL of the ‘loneliest whale in the world’. Instead of communicating at 17/18 Hertz like most fin and blue whales, it calls at 52 Hertz making it unlikely that other whales can hear it.
1dpr TIL that in order to survive through the night without starving, hummingbirds must enter a hypo-metabolic state called torpor, in which their heart rates drop from roughly 1,000 bpm to 70, and their temperatures from 40ºC to 18ºC.
5V7DQ TIL Manchu arrowheads came in many different designs, military, hunting or target, some to be retrievable without damage, some to whistle only, some to whistle and kill (the animal was startled by the whistle, making them easier to hit), some to kill by blunt force, or spear fish or small game.
wLPdE TIL the premiere episode of Doctor Who was preempted for five minutes by the just-breaking news that American President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.
wZBJ TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”