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TIL In 2003 New Zealand engineer Bruce Simpson designed an $5,000 cruise missile using off the shelf parts sourced from the Internet. Despite being entirely legal, his project was shut down by the government.

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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
Zp8Jp TIL South Asians are “starvation-adapted,” due to having survived at least 24 major famines in a 50-year period. As a result, they are six times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than the general population, as well as four times more likely to have a heart attack before the age of 50.
YpAE7 TIL that in the last year of his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt rode a horse 100 miles in one day in order to prove that his new military physical standards (100 miles in three days) were not unreasonable
Z8akY TIL that Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddmore in Ghostbusters, auditioned for the same charracter in the animated series two years later, but didnt get the part because they didn't think he sounded enough like Winston from the movie.
EVEP TIL : Fitness Guru Richard Simmons has not been seen in public since January of last year