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TIL the Romans used to drive on the left side of the road: we know this because the left side of the road to Swindon Quarry has deeper tracks leading out

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VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.
7rwvb TIL the oldest living Nobel laureate, Edmond Fischer was born on April 6, 1920. He and his collaborator Edwin Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins & regulate various cellular process.
d8LxZ TIL that while 'the west' have Azimov's 3 laws of robotics that view robots as dangerous beings to be controlled, like The Terminator, Japan have it's own set of 10 laws that imagine Robots as trustworthy and able to serve important social and emotional roles.
7JRO TIL that last year astronauts in the International Space Station found plankton OUTSIDE one of its windows. They have no explanation for it.
0yNR TIL: 76% of all known serial killers in the 20th century were from the United States