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TIL about the bundling board. While used for strangers having to share a bed, it is also used by the parents of young, courting, puritan couples to achieve the emotional intimacy of sharing a bed while at the same time "discouraging" any real physical intimacy before marriage.

woxr8 TIL that "Robot" was a word used first in 1920 by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots) Although, in the play the "Robots" are made of synthetic organic matter and we would call them "Androids" today. The robots end up rebelling against humans
lor75 TIL the Battleshitts scene in Harold and Kumar was authentic shit sounds. "Sound engineer Jeff Kushner looked for recordings of bowel movements, but couldn’t find the “richness” he wanted, so instead he hid in a truck stop bathroom with a boom mic to capture authentic bowel moments."
OG9AY TIL when Richard Hopper went to buy a lottery ticket, the clerk told him they had accidentally printed a ticket for a previous customer who didn't want it and asked him if he wanted to buy that ticket or a new one. He bought the already printed ticket and won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery.
4XWDg TIL there have been many times that less than 20 votes have made the difference. Your vote DOES count!
XEJkQ TIL that in 1987, a West German teenager named Mathias Rust illegally flew a plane from Helsinki, Finland to Moscow, landed in the Red Square, and evaded the entire Soviet air defence system.