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TIL an engineer managed to build a fully functional miniature V8 engine entirely out of paper.

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nPbd TIL: After Jesse James’ death in 1882, his mother bought many second hand guns, and would sell them claiming them to have belonged to Jesse, leading many people to believe they owned a gun that had belonged to the infamous outlaw
VLwZ TIL Russian cosmonauts urinate on the right rear wheel of the transfer bus before liftoff. Female cosmonauts are excused, but some dash a cup of their own urine in solidarity.
oN7W TIL Led Zeppelin, REM, and Depeche Mode have never had a #1 single but, Rihanna has had 10.
gMeNW TIL that in the last 7 years craters started to appear in the Siberian Tundra, similar to the craters that form by cryovolcanism on the Saturn's moon Enceladus.