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TIL that someone built a Ferrari dragster that has a train supercharger.

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4XJOJ TIL sugar can twist light, and has been used in calibrating instruments that detect the rotation of light.
a8M9o TIL of the Republic of Chad, which is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area in the world.
eWp6 TIL that relativistic effects only become truly severe at very close to light speed: even someone travelling at 0.9 times the speed of light will only perceive time passing 2.29 times faster than it would be perceived from a stationary point of reference.
Z8Vya TIL that Henry Darger, a hospital custodian, wrote The Story of the Vivian Girls, a 15,000 page novel with hundreds of watercolor illustrations. He never showed it to anyone, and it was only found when he died.
rRbaM TIL that carpal tunnel syndrome is likely genetic, and there's very little evidence that it's linked to overuse