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TIL that researchers at the University of Manchester have trained a regal jumping spider named “Kim” to leap on demand for a robotics research in 2018. First time a spider has been successfully trained to jump.

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kJBJ5 TIL London City Airport isn't British owned. It is owned by Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and the Royal Family of Kuwait.
MemKm TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.
OoZy7 TIL Dr Sanduk Ruit who is an opthalmologist from Nepal has personally restored the eye sight of over 130,000 people across Asia and Africa for free of cost, he also restored the sight of 1000 N. Koreans in 2006 visit there
WMQ8 TIL a 19-Year-Old developed a way to remove over 7,250,000 tons of plastic from our oceans.
d8Byj TIL a man was attacked for having a beard in 1830, then imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads, "Persecuted for wearing the beard."