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TIL China's surveillance is named SKYNET

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awgGM TIL Comedian Jenny Slate was effectively fired from SNL after accidentaly uttering the word "fucking" in the first scene of her first episode on the show. The experience led her to develop stage fright which she had to overcome through therapy
aAnJ TIL that China is not the only state to have limited the number of children allowed per family. A two-child policy existed in Vietnam, is being considered in the Philippines and has been advocated in the UK.
Z8QJD TIL During WW1, Australian Soldiers at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux managed to steal a German tank as a trophy and transport it to Australia. Today it stands as the only surviving A7V Sturmpanzerwagen.
M7mxK TIL that the Technocracy Movement of the 30’s suggested technical experts become national decision makers rather than politicians, and proposed unifying Northern America from Panama to Greenland.
R7nY4 TIL The only surviving library of Antiquity is in a villa in Herculaneum. We do not yet have the technology to read the thousands of charred scrolls, but one day we will be able to read them and humanity will regain the lost knowledge.