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TIL one in six Brits would have sex with a robot

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K8YQ TIL that comedian Andy Kauffman would threaten to read passages from The Great Gatsby if hecklers got too rowdy. In addition to often following through, he would then ask if the audience wanted to hear a record instead; the record was always of him reading from where he left off.
ngVP TIL Doge’s real name is ‘Kabosu,’ and she was rescued from an animal shelter in 2008. This saved her from being killed, which was the fate of many other unadopted dogs after their puppy mill closed down.
47Pg TIL the difference between hardwood and softwood has to do with how they reproduce, not the hardness of the wood, and that balsa wood - one of the softest woods - is a hardwood.
6Ed67 TIL the U.S. Census Bureau removed Central and South American as options, because people from the Midwest and the South would mistakenly pick them.
J1ra1 TIL that "On December 20, 1836, temperatures [in Illinois] fell 40 °F or 22.2 °C in minutes, which supposedly froze people to their saddles and chickens in their tracks."