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TIL Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten, which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals. All of his models are based on a system of triangles and connecting links which convert the rotation of an axle into a stepping motion of six or more legs.

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Y7RyB TIL In 1993, [Rolling Stones’ Bill ]Wyman's son Stephen Wyman married Patsy Smith, the 46-year-old mother of Bill's ex-wife Mandy Smith. …Therefore, Bill became the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law as well as the stepgrandfather of his former wife.
yQ9Ya TIL The state of Texas has its own national guard, including a navy, a marines, an army, and an air militia with a fleet of F-16s
OGPX1 TIL the East River that separates Manhattan from long island is not actually a river but rather a drowned valley.
D17NP TIL that Charles Darwin was one of the first people to come up with the idea of putting wheels on his office chair, so that he could work faster
mxWPy TIL of the Bodo League Massacre. A genocide personally witnessed by the American Armed Forces and carried out by the South Korean Military. Around 200,000 people ended up dead. The British Armed Forces were able to successfully save many of the citizens that had been 'marked for death'.