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TIL Robin Hood was called to be removed from Indiana textbooks for being communist

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9ym7 TIL that in 2012, NYU-Poly constructed a robotic fish and placed it in a tank of golden shiners. After simulating the tail movements of a leader fish, the robotic fish was eventually accepted and became their leader.
M7AEa TIL there were at least nine U.S. Army colonels from Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. The only one who joined the Confederate Army was Robert E. Lee.
Bgonk TIL there is One Highway, in the United States, that has road signs in Kilometres and Metres
yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.
Z87oB TIL cruise ships emissions can equal the equivalent of one million cars per day and air quality on deck can be worse than in the world’s most polluted cities.