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TIL that a Russian car magazine accidentally revealed a top-secret Russian submarine

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XEo0R TIL That the bug known as the walking stick doesn't need to mate, unfertilized eggs will turn into exact copies/clones of the mother.
8avWb TIL of "The 2904 Run" which is a NY to LA car race inspired by the Cannonball Run. The objective is to drive the 2904 miles from New York to California on a budget of $2,904 and that includes the car, fuel, toll, tickets, food, etc... The current record is 32 hours and 5 minutes
LvwZ TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
YpN4P TIL that there was once somehow a misconception that infants (not fetuses) somehow don't feel pain, with researchers merely assuming that newborns didn't have fully developed and functioning pain receptors. Unsurprisingly, that is inaccurate.
Z4kD TIL of James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studies serial killers, discovered a gene making someone pre-disposed to being a serial killer, then discovered that his brain is mapped very similarly to serial killers, he has the gene, and is descended from a long line of serial killers