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TIL a man built his own Lamborghini replica from scratch.

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KODdJ TIL modern nuclear submarines are so well cloaked that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missle subs collided in the atlantic ocean by pure chance. Moving very slowly, they were't able to detect each other just feet apart.
jrAv TIL There are 2270 children serving life without parole in US, in the rest of the world combined the number is 12.
4kdXw TIL the Pap smear test, named after its inventor Georgios Papanikolaou, was pioneered through daily samples of his wife Andromachi.
Bg1PK TIL 5 billion bushels (125 billion kg) of corn is used annually for fuel alcohol in the USA.
RJ8l TIL the Milky Way may already be a zombie galaxy, having stopped producing new stars a billion years ago but still moving