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The article presents a list of facts and trivia about robots. The first known homicide by a robot occurred in 1981 when a Japanese factory worker was crushed by a robotic arm. The world's first humanoid robot was named "Elektro" and debuted in 1939. A robotics expert predicts that humans will have sex with robots by 2011.

This article offers various factors about the skin. Body odor, dead skin, fingerprints, skin receptors, Meissner corpuscles and the sense of touch of blind people are mentioned. The derivation of the term "in the buff" is given. The origin of white skin is discussed and the reasons why albinos are often cast as movie villains is given.

The article presents a list of twenty things you did not know about laboratory accidents. In the ninth century a team of Chinese alchemist were trying to make an elixir of immortality and instead invented gunpowder. In 1675 German scientist Hennig Brand stored 50 buckets of urine in his cellar in hopes that it would turn to gold. The article discusses scientist Alexander Fleming, the invention of Teflon, and Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman.