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TIL a man built his own Lamborghini replica from scratch.

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j6RmN TIL that in 1988, researchers ran a jet at 500MPH into a wall of reinforced concrete to prove a nuclear reactor could withstand a direct collision with an airplane. The collision pushed the wall back 6 feet but left only a 2.36 deep scratch while the plane was reduced to scrap.
d1QK TIL of the Instructions of Shuruppag, possibly the oldest decipherable document int he world. It contains such wisdom as “You should not pass judgment when you drink beer” and “Property is something to be expanded, but nothing can equal my little ones.”
d81GB TIL that your handedness has no relation to your preferred stance in board sports. While 90% of people are right handed, the division of goofy vs regular footed people is close to 50/50
awONN TIL that Ulysses S Grant thought that the Mexican American War was one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
DL5P TIL Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the Siege of Leningrad by famished researchers