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TIL: Poland Uses Clams To Control Its Water Supply

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ADrj4 TIL The last Prime Minister of Great Britain to die in office from influenza was Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, in 1782
GAenE TIL Boston Dynamics was acquired by Hyundai Motor Group in 2020. In 2022 the company signed a pledge saying it would not weaponise any of its robots.
rp01 TIL that both Mama Cass (from the Mamas & the Papas) and Keith Moon (from The Who) died in the same apartment owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.
16wZX TIL=Plastic has become such a central component of modern life, it has found its way into our Earth's crust itself, becoming a geological marker. But there's an upside: The plastic is so obvious in the Earth's crust, it gives an exact timetable for when that layer of ground became solid Earth.
rNaow TIL about ''The strongest man in the world'' Croatian Marijan Matijević who pulled two cargo ships with his hands through New York harbour and prevented an airplane from taking off by holding it with a rope. He helped Nikola Tesla when he needed funding and was known for various humanitarian acts.