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TIL that toshiba programmed a robot to “love”. It later had to be deactivated due to “stalking” an engineer.

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OGgae TIL that in 2019 the highest-paid public employee, in 40 out of the 50 United States, was a college football or basketball coach.
05AN TIL that Burlington, Vermont is the first city in the USA to run on 100% clean energy
vPm0r TIL that higher sleep quality during weekends was associated with slightly lower levels of exhaustion during the workweek. These employees were better able to refocus on their work on Mondays, setting a positive tone for the entire week.
ZbDv TIL while in college during the Prohibition era, Dr. Seuss was caught drinking gin with friends in his dorm room. He was forced to write under a pen-name to dodge his ban from writing for the school’s humor magazine. Thus, Theodore Geisel chose his now-legendary pseudonym.
x9pb TIL Charlie Chaplin would have canned The Great Dictator had he known about the actual horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. “Had I known, … I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”