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TIL: That hot water can cause cancer

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JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
R50M7 TIL (after breaking both clippers and some weak scissors) that you're supposed to clip nails and toenails after a bath, when they are softer.
OoeK6 TIL Margaret Hamilton who played the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz, went on the Mr Rogers show many years later to help show kids she was a nice woman and not just an old witch who wanted to get kids and their dogs
yllp TIL that after starring in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, Simon Pegg was asked by an interviewer interviewer asked if he planned to carry on making films in Britain, to which he replied: ‘Well, I’m not about to go and star in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III.’
AkVg TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon is a luxury beer in China and costs 44USD per bottle.