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TIL Vanna White sued Samsung over a robot turning over letters in an ad exclaiming it violated her personal rights.

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e08JL TIL Orca Whales are now known to hunt Great White and eat only their livers. Often extracting the livers with surprising accuracy and precision.
PYLMn TIL: A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane was headed to Switzerland, but had to be intercepted by French/Italian fighter jets because the Swiss Air force doesn't work on nights and weekends.
4X94w TIL of the Korean TV programme, 'Finding Dispersed Families', that aired in 1983 and was responsible for reuniting over 10,000 Koreans with family that they had lost during the Korean War. Originally planned to be 95 minutes, the programme went on to run for 453 hours, with over 53,000 participants.
YplDB TIL.... That at Grateful Dead shows deaf people used to hold balloons so they could actually feel the vibrations of the music
9YObm TIL of Stella Nyanzi, a foe of Ugandan President Museveni. She posted she wished Mr. Museveni had burned up in the "acidic pus" of his mother's vagina. She was jailed for cyberharassment and bared her breasts at her sentencing, "I intended to annoy Yoweri Museveni. We are tired of his dictatorship."