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TIL A researcher at Cornell University has created a robot that “evolves”. Through a clever algorithm, it spends its days creating better versions of itself

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neGPd TIL that if she is still reigning in four years' time, Queen Elizabeth II will become history's longest-reigning monarch.
941r TIL that according to the ‘Copyright Act 1911’ The British Library must receive a copy of every item published or distributed in the United Kingdom (including pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, sheet music and maps) in a practice know as 'legal deposit’, which can be traced back to at least 1610.