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TIL that ‘Zippo’ will repair any pocket lighter made by themselves, whether it be 1 year old or 100, for free.

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kOGR7 TIL: that the Nasa funded a project created by Carl Sagan to teach english to a dolphin with the help of masturbation and lsd. The dolphin ended up killing himself, and also, he was Flipper.
d8QQ8 TIL - Not only is the kidnap and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena still active he may have been betrayed by a DEA agent in his own office but also a CIA agent who has been named was there at his interrogation and murder.
6ENYl TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to carry a gun into space, in case they missed their landing spot and got stranded in the Siberian wilderness.
D16XJ TIL even though the human brain only weighs 2% of an average persons body weight, it burns 20% of the calories you consume.
8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)