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

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neNrB TIL that Nigeria has a space program and has successfully launched several satellites into orbit.
Rej7 TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare.”
E1y7 TIL that it would take about 732 quintillion packets of Kool-Aid and 91.5 quadrillion metric tons of sugar to turn the ocean into cheery Kool-Aid.
v1lkK TIL of Lydia Fairchild a mother from Washington State who's accused of fraud & kidnapping her own children. During application for government assistance, DNA test shows she has no connection to her kids. It turned out she has chimerism, she has 2 sets of DNA, the reason for the maternal test anomaly
VMmQ4 TIL about Ishikawa Goemon, a Japanese ninja who was a Robin Hood-like figure and was sentenced to death by being boiled alive along with his infant son.