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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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N767b TIL a Venus flytrap can count the number of times its victims touch the hairs on its leaves. One touch does nothing, two closes the trap, three primes the trap for digestion, five triggers the production of digestive enzyme. So, victims tell the plant to start killing it and how vigorously to do so.
OOma TIL during a training exercise in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided & locked together 1000ft in the air, yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after all other trainees ejected. Fuller, aged 21, was commemorated, but died 4yrs later when his bicycle collided with a passenger bus.
oBZZL TIL that in 2013 a zoo in China tried to pass off a hairy dog as a lion
Rm68 TIL After Fighter pilot Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. flew the longest interception mission of WWII to shoot down and kill the Admiral responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, he broke radio silence to tell everybody “That son of a bitch will not be dictating any peace terms in the White House”.
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