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TIL one in six Brits would have sex with a robot

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R7ga7 TIL in 2004, an assistant high school principal in Michigan tried to frame a student by planting pot in his locker, then calling police to do a locker search. When no drugs were found, he laughingly told police what he had done. He later resigned and became the subject of a criminal probe
d8mvZ TIL that Chuck E. Cheese’s official backstory is that he is an orphaned mouse who does not know his own birthday. To make up for never having a birthday party of his own, he hosts parties for children. And his middle name is Entertainment.
7aGX TIL the NYPD operates in 11 foreign cities, including London, Lyons, Hamburg, Tel Aviv and Toronto
69dDm TIL about The Black Taj Mahal (Kala Taj), a black marble mausoleum that was planned to be built across the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan desired a mausoleum for himself similar to that of the one he had built in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
xw5g TIL flaming pigs were used in ancient warfare as a countermeasure against war elephants.