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TIL that Chrysler made a car with a turbine engine that could run on everything from perfume to peanut oil. The President of Mexico fueled one with Tequila.

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9Yem TIL that gorillas are able to remember their kin even after being separated as infants
ANGg7 TIL There's a thought experiment called "Killing baby Hitler" which is sometimes compared to the trolley problem
5YQX9 TIL there is a specied of bird called "Honeyguide" (in Africa) that reponds to humans' calls by guiding the humans to wild bees' hive, waiting until the humans have smoked out the bees and felled the tree with the hive and harvested the honey, and feed on the wax in the leftover bees' hive.
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