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TIL one in six Brits would have sex with a robot

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W7owY TIL Jethro Tull's album Thick as a Brick was created as satire, a jab at the 10+ minute songs from prog rock bands at the time. It's now considered one of the best prog-rock albums of all time.
4XQYX TIL about Kiyoshi Shimizu, a Japanese journalist that helped solved a series of child kidnaping cases and released an innocent man from further prosecution. He also helped solved the murder of Shiori Ino which led to the changes to legal treatment of stalking in Japan
D1yej TIL when the US Military demanded a 'colour-only' bar in Bamber, UK, all three pubs in the village declared themselves to be for black people only, effectively denying white American servicemen an area to drink.
XEmbk TIL that studies have shown that organic food is worse for the environment than non-organic, and is unsustainable due to its higher land use requirements
J1gOm TIL the phrase "vox populi, vox dei" was originally a warning about the dangers of listening to the crowd