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TIL there’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. The check-in desk is an animatronic velociraptor.

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E1gnX TIL William Kamkwamba, after being forced to quit school at 14 due to poverty, taught himself to build windmills out of trash, using books from a local library, transformed his village with electricity and became an international celebrity. Receiving a scholarship to Dartmouth and graduating in 2014
GvLE TIL that “72% of wingsuit flyers had witnessed death or serious injury, and 76% had experienced a ‘near miss’”
ANDLd TIL the role of Judith in The Walking Dead has been played by at least 16 different actors
JNZQ TIL according to Christian theology, Jesus went to Hell between the time of his Crucifixion and Resurrection.
GY0dg TIL Astronauts threw a taco party to celebrate their first harvest of seven Hatch peppers grown on the International Space Station, part of a larger experiment in growing fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement the packaged food sent on space missions.