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TIL 17 countries, including Saudi Arabia, don’t have any rivers

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NX46e TIL about Rocket Boots, invented by Soviet scientist Viktor Gordeyev. Instead of actual rockets, the boots were equipped with pistons filled with a fuel-air mixture. The boots enabled an average speed of 10.5 mph and a maximum speed of 22 mph.
R7YWa TIL in the 1860s, before he invented Coca-Cola, John Pemberton created French Wine Coca which was wine mixed with cocaine, and when ingested forms the drug cocaethylene which is 20 times deadlier than cocaine itself. The drink was so popular that the Pope allegedly carried a flask of it with him.
vP4ZD TIL cybertrucks have 1 wiper blades and it’s 4 feet long.
5gpp TIL in the early 1900s, the British equivalent of “That’s what she said” was “Said the actress to the bishop.”
4X7bR TIL Microsoft lost $4 billion with the original Xbox console since it had a manufacturing price far more expensive than its retail price