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TIL that Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition

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RoeQ TIL the Fahrenheit system was designed with the freezing point of brine as 0 degrees, 32 degrees as the freezing point of water, and 96 degrees as the temperature of the human body. The difference between 32 and 96 was useful for instrumentation at the time (64 can be bisected 6 times).
r674 TIL Scientists had to purge Urban Dictionary’s data from IBM’s Watson’s memory because it learned to swear.
6En0m TIL Republicans and Democrats used to switch symbolic colors until the 2000 presidential election
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M7Dpa TIL that Corey Feldman voiced Donatello in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie