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TIL that manhole covers are round so that they don’t fall into the opening

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4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
wGlE TIL Scandinavians have a right to travel freely across their countries including camping on others privately owned property
4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"
m4Vo TIL that an anime called Ghost Stories did so poorly in Japan, that when it was voiced in English, the voice actors were given free rein on the script. This transformed the script into a hilarious comedy for adults.
neVQ9 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, assassinated federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979, the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. He had also been tried for murder two other times, and convicted for one of them.