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The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.
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TIL that the technology for cleaner, healthier gas stoves has been around for decades. But appliance makers aren’t offering them because they don’t have the signature “blue flame”.
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TIL that the state reptile of New Mexico is an all-female species of lizard. Individuals are either the result of two other species interbreeding, or through parthenogenesis (embryos developing from unfertilized eggs).
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TIL about the 1986-87 Conflict between Chad and Libya is known as the 'Toyota War' due to sheer number of Toyotas used by Chad in the conflict. It is the only car brand with a war named after it.
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TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.
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TIL the World Wide Web is 7777 days old today.