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TIL Robert Williams was the first human to be killed by a robot

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yVene TIL The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1 in a humanbody.
xVnvb TIL that in 1291, two brothers from Genoa sailed into the Atlantic in search of a sea route to India. They made it to Morocco but were never seen again.
k6d5 TIL That a monastery in the UK makes as fortified wine called Buckfast that has 15% alcohol and as much caffeine as 8 cokes per bottle. Despite being made by monks, it is synonymous with crazed blackouts and under age use.
kdDm TIL a cockatoo in Australia lived to be 100 years old.
78w0O TIL that the Greek philosopher Herophilus named the coxxyx (human tail bone) after the beak of the cuckoo bird.