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TIL that the oldest sourdough starter is 122 years old
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TIL China bought their first aircraft carrier by sending an official in a gambler disguise to deceiving the Ukraine officials into thinking he would use the carrier solely as a floating casino.
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TIL that plastics don’t dry in the dishwasher because they don’t have enough mass to get hot enough to evaporate water during the drying cycle, like glass and ceramics do.
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TIL: Hells Angels attempted to kill Mick Jagger in 1975. They tried to drive a boat up to the Long Island Mansion he was staying at, however, the boat sank and the Hells Angels ended up having to swim for their lives.
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TIL that the word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning forced labor or drudgery, and was first used in the play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek in 1920.
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TIL near the of the song “Countries of the World” from the kid’s show “Amimaniacs”, Yako lists Palestine as a country.