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TIL that Seattle changed Columbus day to indigenous peoples day in 2014 to acknowledge that native Americans were living in the Americas long before Columbus “discovered” it.

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1aD TIL that upon seeing a picture of Yoko Ono’s great-grandfather John Lennon remarked, “That’s me in a former life.” To which Ono replied “Don’t say that… He was assassinated.”
XGJr TIL A study has found that some soldiers are so attached to their bomb disposal robots that they treat them as if they had personalities, mourn them if they became damaged by enemy explosives; and even hold funerals for them when they ‘die’
4XJ8b TIL that in 1997, Cornell University created the world's smallest guitar at 10 micrometers. This is roughly the size of a single cell.
LQj0m TIL that the ancient Greeks used a primitive form of computer called the Antikythera mechanism, dating back to around 100 BC, to predict astronomical events and eclipses.