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TIL that Ethiopia was the only African country that was never colonized

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9w0YG TIL About The Axeman of New Orlean's, a serial killer who attacked 12 people with an axe and was never caught.
xV57o TIL students in competitions to design fuel-efficient vehicles routinely design vehicles capable of travelling THOUSANDS of miles per gallon of gas.
xJn5 TIL an Australian company wants to resurrect gladiator duels with carbon-fiber suits
QNQye TIL about the "Gimli Glider", a Boeing 767 jet that ran out of fuel and glided for 17 minutes without engine power, crash-landing on a crowded racetrack with no deaths or major injuries. Other pilots who used a flight simulator to reenact the incident all failed to land safely.
4b6w TIL spiders can travel across oceans like ships: they use their legs as sails and their silk as an anchor