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TIL that the word “Android” refers only to a male looking robot, for one that looks like a female the proper term is “Gynoid”.

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9Y7G TIL American juries can nullify a law by ignoring it, and letting the defendant go free.
BrJ7x TIL Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
WGm8 TIL that the term “football” did not originally have anything to do with kicking a ball with your feet, but instead meant that a game was played on foot as opposed to on a horse, and hence was a game for “commoners”
9PKG TIL An Oregon resident was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being found guilty of collecting 13 million gallons of rainwater.
WP74 TIL The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the top search result for reporting mental health abuses, is run by Scientology