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TIL Robots have been around since 1948, with the first robot actually being a complex application of concepts from the 4th century

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NXeyJ TIL that words which take on completely different meanings when their first letter is capitalised (eg. Turkey the country vs turkey the bird) are called capitonyms
dMyB TIL that 62 of the 97 people onboard the Hindenburg survived when it was destroyed.
jNglQ Today i learned about the human excretory system. ES consist of a pair of kidneys, one pairs of ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra. Kidneys are reddish brown bean shaped structure situated b/w the last thoracic & 3rd lumbar vertebra close 2 the dorsal inner wall of the abdominal cavity.
jNNBn TIL there are between 17,200 and 36,000 rose-ringed parakeets normally native to central Africa living wild in South West London.
KBxQ TIL Irish-American Billionaire Chuck Feeney has given away $7.5billion (£4.9billion) to health, science, education and civil rights causes. He is now worth $2 million dollars.