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TIL Tesla’s OSHA violations made up 75 percent of all the violations among the top 10. From 2014 to 2018, Tesla’s auto production facility in Fremont, California, was issued a total of 54 OSHA violations: three times more than all the top 10 auto plants in the U.S. combined.

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pYedQ TIL the herbivorous/omnivorous equivalent of a scavenger is a detritivore
MeN5m TIL the word 'robot' was invented by Czech anti-fascist writers. 'Robota' means 'forced labour', & was coined by Josef Čapek. His brother Karel's 1920 sci-fi play 'R.U.R.' tells of android workers rising up against human masters. Josef was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
YOeG TIL, a group of coconut crabs is called a “nightmare,” with leg spans reaching up to three feet, and are known to climb trees on their native islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans; they’ve also been observed devouring chickens and kittens.
VVlD TIL the US left reflectors on the moon. They are used to track plate tectonics on Earth by firing lasers into the reflectors. This is also commonly cited as evidence that the moon missions aren’t a conspiracy theory.
ADWEo TIL: King James VI/I wrote a book called "Daemonologie" on necromancy and black magic. It included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. It also touches on topics such as werewolves and vampires.