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

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J1d9j TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean.
Br97L TIL Coca-Cola did not invent the modern image of the red and white clothed Santa Claus through their famous campaigns of the 1930's. His modern look goes back as far as the 1880's through an illustrator named Thomas Nast.
ZAy4 TIL that Reagan declared ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1982 and privatized prisons in 1983.
Nkn8 TIL that once Iron begins to form in the heart of a giant star it only has seconds to live before it explodes into a supernova and most of the heavier elements such as Gold and Silver are formed in the resulting explosion.
aw6Do TIL in four boroughs of New York City, excluding Staten Island, there has been a 25 to 35 percent reduction in alcohol-related car accidents since Uber came to town in 2011.