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TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey

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8jYP TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
ZRnp TIL that Stalin sent 22 assassins to kill Josip Broz Tito, dictator of Yugoslavia. The day Stalin died, a letter from Tito was found in his office; it said that Tito would only have to send one.
WDDo TIL the soviet military mapped the entire world with an extreme accuracy. They created more than 1 million maps and some are still used today. It remains one of the most ambitious cartography project till today.
PObV TIL that the name Russia comes from Viking Norsemen travelled and traded using the rivers of Eastern Europe. They were called “the men who row” or “Rus’”. They later formed the Tsardom of Russia.
Qr4E TIL In 1959, The winner of a city council election in Sao Paulo was Cacareco, a rhino at a local zoo. Its candidacy was traced back to students who had printed up 200,000 ballots with her name, and were all legitimately cast by voters, one of whom commented: “Better to elect a rhino than an ass.”