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TIL that a robot recently performed the world’s first autonomous soft-tissue surgery without any assistance from doctors, and did so while outperforming human doctors by every metric except for speed.

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gXpL TIL that a real life Mowgli existed, and she’s a French girl.
7JMx TIL that Aaron Bruno, lead singer of AWOLNATION, wrote and recorded “Sail” in two hours, in one take. The sound engineer felt it needed a redo because of some distortion. Bruno replied “Who cares? No one’s gonna care about this song anyway.”
epO55 TIL Bob Seger’s only #1 single is “Shakedown” on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack
rRy1o TIL Operation Condor was a United States-backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially and formally implemented in November 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.
yQEyl TIL of Maximilian I of Mexico, an Austrian archduke and the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire. Installed by France as a pro-French monarch, he reigned from 1864-1867, after which he was executed by the Mexican Republic.