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TIL there is a "Robot Scientist" named Adam - in 2009, "Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators"

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lovPA TIL that Charles Bronson once took took a civilian hostage and demanded an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea. He later released the hostage after being disgusted when he broke wind on front of him.
Z8AJG TIL that white sugar isn't always vegan- it is sometimes refined with bone char, typically from cows, to make it whiter
XE6oD TIL Actress Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's "The Birds" was instrumental in beginning the association between Vietnamese-Americans and the nail salon industry.
nW7Ro TIL of the "Green Book" which helped Black Americans know which restaurants, hotels and gas stations would serve them and/or do them no harm between the 1930s-1960s
R7PjQ TIL that in 1996, an American citizen swam across a Chinese river into North Korea on a drunken dare. He got caught, was held and imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy, but was eventually released back to the U.S. He committed suicide a few weeks later.