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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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ZmJR TIL the original bikini swimsuit was named after the then-recent Bikini Atoll nuclear test because the inventor expected the swimsuit to be “equally explosive”
69dxQ TIL Chris Farley was originally the voice of Shrek. After his untimely death producers considered having a Farley impersonator finish the movie, but they decided to replace him with Mike Myers
ra80 TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Ku Klux Klan helped fund the monument.
5o58 TIL the metallic smell of coins isn’t from the metal but decomposing oils from our skin.
vP1Pr TIL in 1993 Burger King Briefly Offered Table Service During Dinner Hours, Offering Popcorn As A Table Appetizer