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TIL that in the US trial by combat is still technically an alternative to civil cases

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LkoZ9 TIL that in Toy Story 4 instead of creating all of the individual cobwebs by hand, Pixer created AI spiders that were programmed to spin the webs wherever the cobwebs needed to be.
E1mKp TIL that One of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages " Kom El Shoqafa Catacombs " was accidentally discovered in 1900 when a donkey was suddenly swallowed by the earth below.
Z5wD TIL roman emperor Nero paid for a young boy, married him, castrated him and dressed him like a girl at public events.
9Y8DB TIL researchers at U of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors. It does so by "cheating", using a high-speed camera to recognize the shape within 1 millisecond.
XDLR TIL that the Spongebob Squarepants theme-song is a popular marching cadence in the Russian armed forces.