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

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neBpG TIL that despite having a PHD in statistics, Carl Gugasian, the most prolific bank robber in American history AKA the Friday Bank Robber, chose a life of crime because he feared that he would never find a job due to spending 2 years in prison as a teenager for robbing a candy store.
vP1Ej TIL of Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon that was known as the "monkey gland man". He claimed to rejuvenate his patients, transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into millionaires, turning to using monkey testicles when supplies ran low. Over 500 men were treated with his technique.
NX6L6 TIL that Canada has the only island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world, as well as the only lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world.
4kdb6 TIL: In the early 1800s, a Norwegian Fisherman when denied alcohol carried a 371kg stone to block the shop's doorway.
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