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TIL bodybuilding was banned in China in 1953.

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PMVV TIL that in 2010 a robot programmed to fall in love got a little too attached to a woman and wouldn’t let her leave the room.
kOgNe TIL that it took seven weeks for Franklin Roosevelt's parents to name him "Franklin".
BrkWb TIL the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy is alive and serving a lifetime prison sentence. He has been denied parole 15 times and continues to claim he has no memory of the murder. He was stabbed multiple times by another inmate in 2019 and survived. He never became an American citizen.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
W7v9L TIL about York, a man enslaved by William Clark who played a pivotal role in the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804-1806)