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TIL- Samsung has automated armed sentry guns in Korea's 'de-militarized zone'

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d8R5d TIL a group is injecting wild rhino horns with a pink dye that is harmless to rhinos but causes vomiting and diarrhea in humans. The goal is to poison illegal rhino horn consumers in order to decrease poaching.
W7Rd8 TIL that falcons are closer related to parrots and songbirds than to other birds of prey.
YpAwx TIL About Malcolm Myatt who in 2013 had a stroke and due to damage to his frontal lobe lost the ability to feel sad.
KZm6 TIL that although lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922, the US did not ban lead paint until 1971.
b97GZ TIL a riddle from 1688 goes. "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003 the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored though surgery. They could not.