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TIL Can't open the trunk without the key by using a nail gun

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Z8B94 TIL that mosquitoes' mouths have six parts, two parts to hold the skin in place while two other parts poke into the skin to look for blood vessels, a pump to suck up the blood, and a pump to deposit saliva with an anti-coagulant
8aP8b TIL Romans didn't vomit during feasts, a vomitorium is a series of entrance or exit passages in an ancient Roman amphitheatre or theatre.
X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
LyWv TIL: When the Ocarina of Time was remade for the 3DS, Nintendo purposefully did not fix many of the original game’s bugs, to give players as close an experience to the N64 version as possible.
VMplQ TIL: The small hopping insect Issus Coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. This insect has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature