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

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loxb7 TIL Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working at the Radioplane factory in 1945. She worked on the first ever remote controlled drones during WWII.
P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.
yVX0w TIL that Elogio del Horizonte, a concrete sculpture in Spain has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet".
r650 TIL it took 11 hours for Seattle police to subdue a man who was standing in an open parking lot and armed with just a samurai sword.
WkarB TIL that the 12-story Soviet embassy in Indonesia was torn down in December 1990 (a year before its dissolution) due to national security concern over a mall (Plaza Indonesia) built near the building. Always thought that the current Russian embassy was also the one used by the Soviet Union.