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TIL the spot where Julius Caesar was assassinated is now a cat sanctuary for 250 cats.

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ADgjx TIL John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ lost the top of his middle finger as a kid and had special prosthetic made. He played a prank on Peter Jackson where he cut off the tip of the prosthetic, covered it with blood, walked up to Peter and said, “Boss, I had an accident.”
nWNyr TIL that Fahrenheit and Celsius meet at -40°F (-40°C)
x6B0B TIL the word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "forced labor," and was first used in a 1920 play where robots rebelled against humans.
R5Wn8 TIL that El Ejido, Spain is surrounded by a sea of greenhouses covering 150 square miles producing 2.5 million tons of produce.
dDXnE TIL about Aaron O’Connell, who in 2010 created the worlds first quantum machine, showing us that objects visible to the naked eye can be in two seperate states at once