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TIL Coca-Cola has a Robot Vending Machine walking around Tokyo, also other vending machines.

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W7ZAd TIL about Gary Plauche. Jeff Doucet had kidnapped and molested Plauche’s son. Doucet was being transported by sheriffs when Plauche shot him on live TV.
6EEaJ Yes, it’s true that most jetliners are certified for automatic landings, called “autolands” in pilot-speak. But in practice they are rare. Fewer than 1 percent of landings are performed automatically, and the fine print of setting up and managing one of these landings is something I could talk about all day. If it were as easy as pressing a button, I wouldn’t need to practice them twice a year in the simulator or periodically review those tabbed, highlighted pages in my manuals. In a lot of respects, automatic landings are more work-intensive than those performed by hand. The technology is there if you need it for that foggy arrival in Buenos Aires with the visibility sitting at zero, but it’s anything but simple.
Qp9M TIL De Beers no longer controls the diamond market and prices are set by market forces after a century long monopoly
mx50P TIL that the 1995 comedy “Clueless” staring Alicia Silverstone is a retelling of Jane Austin’s novel “Emma” which was published in 1815.
4kXkN TIL that from 2008 to 2014 an IBM employee with a security cleareance leaked the usage of Danish celebrities' credit cards in real-time to tabloid journalists and received a monthly $1500 "paycheck" for his services.