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TIL Grant Imahara designed and built a robot for the Late Late show with Craig Fergusen:

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xVxk7 TIL that a dam failure in China, 1975 caused as many as 240,000 deaths. The chief engineer predicted it beforehand, and was removed from the project. It was covered up for decades
KO6rB TIL that the Treason Act of 1351 is still in force today in the United Kingdom and parts of Australia, even though the law is written in Norman French and it concerns such things as violating the King’s eldest daughter or killing Wardens of the Forest.
gMVnb TIL The Mesopotamian Empire and the Babylonian Empire were the first civilizations to introduce the use of sanitary sewerage system.
69AnY TIL that when Heythrop College in London closed in 2019, it was the first significant UK higher education institution to close permanently since the University of Northampton in 1265.
VZmQ TIL an Airbus A380 weighs 400 tons, about twice what the Statue of Liberty does