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If you have some free space at home, a Turbo Union RB199 engine, previously used in the Tornado jet (not clear which variant), is on sale on eBay.

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NEb8 TIL that the Internet Archive offers a huge collection of classic MS-DOS games, which can all be played directly in the browser
VMAbZ TIL that Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. Scientists at Emory University have named this gene associated with memory and learning the "Homer Simpson gene"
0dvmv TIL the director of Captain Phillips didn't allow Tom Hanks and Actors playing somali pirates to meet before filming the movie, so that the pirates can terroize Tom and his crew and create a realistic tension and hostility between them.
9la6 TIL there are ancient Asian shipwrecks in Washington state. Bonus TIL: When explorers travelled the Columbia River, they found Japanese sailors