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TIL the pulsejet engine can be made with zero moving parts.

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9YrmQ TIL A 14-year-old visited a Chinese hospital with stomach pains after experiencing constipation for five days. Doctors believe that she drank so much bubble tea that about a hundred tapioca pearls built up in her body, causing a blockage
embL TIL That there exists a type of fish that can live out its entire life cycle in the footprint of an elephant.
4kLRo TIL The phrase “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” came from an advertising slogan created by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and R&R Partners in 2003. They hoped to rebrand Vegas as a place where visitors could let loose. The original phrase was “what happens here, stays here.”
BaVW TIL that Guy Fawkes, the guy many celebrate and honour as a rebel to the state, was in fact aiming an assassination in the name of religion to restore Catholicism to Britain, not simply rebelling against government power.
VB56Z TIL American DJ and record producer Steve Aoki's father, Rocky Aoki, founded Benihana. Hiroaki Aoki opened the first Benihana in New York City in 1964.