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TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics

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K8L6 TIL that a teenage girl, Claudette Colvin, did the exact same thing as Rosa Parks months prior, but the NAACP didn’t stand up for her because she was an unwed, teen mother.
6nw7 TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.
868a TIL the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Angry Beavers, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall–visible in most episodes–updates in real time.
GAnJj TIL that Honey Smacks (then known as Sugar Smacks), during its 1950s debut, had the highest sugar content of any US cereal, at 55% per weight.
V6rB TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg