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Today I learned that a shape-shifting robot can melt itself to escape a lab jail using magnets. The robot has been filmed melting itself to escape through the bars of a miniature jail cell, much like the T-1000 in Terminator 2.

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vKLx TIL in the 80’s Bayer sold contaminated blood products after safer versions became available. Although the product was tainted with HIV, a concern discussed by Bayer and the FDA, there was an impression of protecting the companies’ profits at the cost of infecting large numbers of people with HIV.
xVevo TIL of Victoria Woodhull who was the first woman to run for president in the 1872 election by the newly formed National Woman's Suffrage Association. On the day before the election, she was arrested for "publishing an obscene newspaper" and was unable to cast a vote for herself.
X0opR TIL there was a single fatality at the Nevada test site, where the U.S. detonated over 1,000 nuclear warheads. He died when a crater collapsed.
AEYx TIL that all patents on Lego have expired and anyone can make Lego clones; they just cannot use the word Lego since it is a Trademark. Lego have lost 2 court cases (EU & Canada) because of this.