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TIL Uganda Is Reviving The “Kill the Gays” Bill From 2009

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a5xN TIL Both Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte played, and we’re beaten by a, chess robot. The robot toured the world, beating masters and novices alike. However, in reality it was just a man in a box.
9YX57 TIL that in the 17th century a Tortoise had its brain removed and continued to live for six months.
1LyP TIL that on April 6th, 1926 a boy named Phillip McClean was killed when he and his brother came across a Cassowary bird on their property. They tried to kill it, but it kicked Philip in the neck, cutting him, and he bled to death. McClean is the only person to be killed by a Cassowary.
9ON6 TIL humans have an instinctual revulsion to things that look and move almost like a human, but not entirely
7moL TIL that when the University of Sheffield polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor