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TIL that there is an autonomous robot patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, finding destructive starfish and killing them by injecting them with poison

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nWXb9 TIL that if you mistype words on your Android keyboard you can simply swipe your finger across the screen from right to left on the backspace key and it will delete entire words at a time rather than individual letters
epxQE TIL that Kmart still exists, with three locations on the East Coast of the U.S.
J1nk8 TIL that India's largest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has nearly double the membership of the Chinese Communist Party.
awkkM TIL that Vesna Vulović, a former flight attendant, holds the world record for surviving the longest free fall without a parachute (10.1 kilometers). Following the plane crash (of which she was the sole survivor), she was willing to resume working flights, however the airline gave her a desk job.
6EBZm TIL the Chernobyl nuclear plant wasn't shut down after the disaster, and was still producing electricity until the year 2000