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TIL that a Japanese laboratory designed a robot to win rock paper scissors with a 100% success rate

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ZpvOY TIL that the anti-AIDS drug Ritonavir had to be taken off the market after scientists accidentally synthesized a second, medically useless form of the drug. The new form assimilated all the samples it touched, making them equally useless. A microscopic quantity of it was enough to halt production.
woZP7 TIL that the Niesen Stairway (service stairway for Niesenbahn funicular) is the longest staircase in the world with 11,674 steps. It is located on Mt. Niesen in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps.
GAXmN TIL: The Prison Mirror is believed to be the oldest continuously published prison paper in the U.S.
nW5XB TIL Herbert Hoover was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River.
er44 TIL Titanic survivors were charged $1 per word to send telegrams from their lifeboat. One man used his last dollar to send the word Safe to his mother