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TIL The girl who played young Amelia Pond is the real life cousin of the actress who played Amy Pond

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N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
lAk5 TIL of Elektro the robot. Built in 1937 to resemble the typical American male he could look, listen, speak, move independently and, of course, smoke cigarettes.
O7YL TIL that the “Banana Equivalent Dose” uses the banana as a basic unit of radiation when calculating radiation exposure levels, and is the original “banana for scale”
wLyK1 TIL: Most Mars rovers use the same operating system as some Toshiba photocopiers, called VxWorks; it is also used in many Industrial robots, Aviation systems, Medical equipment, and some Consumer electronics .
PYPxJ TIL that former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg once went incognito as a taxi-driver in Oslo because he wanted to "hear from real Norwegian voters and that taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views."