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TIL the world’s fastest street legal car can go from 0-60 in 1.8 seconds. That car? An electrical 1972 Datsun (repurposed)

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E1vmP TIL that the Wolf of Wall Street movie was funded by a fraudulent bond scheme run by Goldman Sachs employees and a Malaysian PM.
kGj5 TIL Teddy Roosevelt had his family crest tattoed across his chest
gr119 TIL in 1871 to support the need for more bells in the Cologne Cathedral, Kaiser Wilhelm I donated 24 captured French canons to be melted down and cast. The three ton bell created was named Kaiserglocke. Ironically the bell was melted down in 1918 to support the German war effort.
ANVDB TIL that we humans have no sensors to detect low levels of oxygen unlike in movies where people gasp in oxygen depleted environments. Three seafarer were in killed in a chain locker room in a ship and the oxygen was depleted because of rust.
D1NrP TIL that two MIT Scientists successfully planted a false memory into a mouse (Mouseception). When set in a certain box, the mouse freezes in terror, recalling that it receives a shock in this box, when this never happened. This research may lead to new treatments for Depression or Alzheimer's, etc.