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TIL The professional bowler Chris Barnes once beat a robot optimized to throw strikes

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Gpkg TIL many of The Cure’s guitar parts, such as the famous one in ‘Just Like Heaven’, are actually 6-string bass parts.
9Y8pG TIL that in 2013, a Texas woman tried to kill a snake by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire. The snake's final act of defiance was to slither into the house and set it on fire.
xdn5 TIL William Shockley, father of silicon valley, was a proponent of eugenics. He proposed that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization.
mxxLp TIL that Jackie the lion, one of the mascots for MGM, not only survived two train wrecks, an earthquake, a boat sinking, and an explosion at the studio, but also a plane crash that left him stranded in the Arizona wilderness for days
78MvL TIL during the music festival Woodstock '94, it rained all weekend long and turned the grassy venue into mud. Green Day started a mud fight with the crowd during their set, which ended with fans charging the stage, and bassist Mike Dirnt getting a tooth knocked out.