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TIL webcams were first invented in 1993 as a way to check for coffee at Cambridge University

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gMgv8 TIL that researchers at Draper Laboratory have genetically engineered a dragonfly to become a cyborg. It is equipped with a “backpack” of sensors, electronics and a solar panel and can be controlled remotely through its light sensitive “steering neurons”
wBM6 TIL that death valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, occasionally has a ‘Super-bloom’ of wildflowers when conditions are just right
QNr0E TIL the The Warriors was X-rated in France in 1979 for incitement to violence, the French Movies Control Board describing the movie as "a very realistic vision of the urban guerrilla warfare that gangs can develop to conquer a city"
PQdg TIL Dua Khalil’s body was exhumed after she was stoned to death in an honor killing and sent to a forensic lab “so that tests could be performed to see whether she had died a virgin”.
loGRr TIL that due to his acting roles in many Marvel movies, the late Stan Lee is the highest-grossing actor of all time. With a total box office gross as an actor at $30,617,384,366. The second highest grossing actor is also a Marvel movie star, Samuel L. Jackson of Nick Fury fame.