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TIL that baby chickens imprinting on a robot that was made to randomly move in a room affected the robots movements. This means that hoping for a song in a playlist on shuffle and getting that same song like you were hoping for may not be a coincidence.

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Brkly TIL while trying to make a point about how difficult it is for new writers to be published, English author and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing submitted two novels, "The Diary of a Good Neighbour" and "If the Old Could", to her publisher in the UK under the penname Jane Somers - and both were rejected
p8JrN TIL that in the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.
lo0LN TIL the longest game of monopoly was played at a frat in Pittsburgh,lasting five days in 1961. When the bank ran out of money they wired Parker Brothers, who sent them a million $ of monopoly money by air and was delivered by armoured car.
VMJ8G TIL of a traffic light in United States that is deliberately upside down - In 1920's the Irish community at Tipperary Hill, Syracuse didn't like that the "British" red appeared above the "Irish" green on the light and kept vandalizing it until New York State was convinced to keep it green over red.
KOZlG TIL that Snoop Dogg. broke the Guinness World Record for biggest gin and juice by stirring up a drink that contained 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy and 38 jugs of orange juice.