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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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EoQw TIL environmental activist group Greenpeace once accidentally released a fact sheet which said “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]”.
W7r1N TIL roughly 30 writers passed on writing the screenplay for Iron Man due to the obscurity of the character & the fact it was solely a Marvel Studios production. To build public awareness & remove the perception that Iron Man is a robot, Marvel released 3 animated shorts called Iron Man Advertorials.
78BQX TIL that the Stanley Cup has been pissed in multiple times, punted into a canal, dropped from a balcony, and left in two seperate pools. In terms of boyency, a player noted that "the Stanley Cup does not float."
RnE9 TIL that over 1 million white slaves were taken from Europe by Africans. Most were worked to death.
R08Q TIL in 1998, during a soccer match in the Congo a lightning bolt struck the pitch and killed all 11 members of one team. The other team was left unscathed.