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TIL that an estonian guy built an amphibious car from Toyota Land Cruiser and is trying to circumnavigate the globe with it. He recently got into trouble near Cape Verde but still tries to continue his trip.

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6EyAl TIL US Senate Pages are not allowed to have cell phones or use the Internet for anything besides school
evx5 TIL that the English language evolves so rapidly in the United States that is possible to roughly estimate one’s age simply based on whether they say “on accident” or “by accident”
LkXEd TIL: When scientists found harpoon tips from the 19th century in bowhead whales, they got curious about how old they were and discovered they are one of the oldest vertebrates in the world, living to be over 200 years old.
Br8Me TIL that Doritos were originally Disneyland trash. In the early days of Disneyland, a restaurant named Casa de Fritos invented Doritos by repurposing stale tortillas they bought from a local vendor. The chips proved to be so popular they were eventually rolled out nationally by Frito-Lay in 1966.
QM86 TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today