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TIL Porsche lets people download car models from their official website, to 3D print at home. Yes, you can download a car.

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neEBG TIL Eisenhower visited Taiwan in 1960 and an estimated 650,000 people packed into the Presidential Plaza to hear the American president. He lauded President Chiang for his courage and tireless effort in leading the nation in the struggle against in­human tyranny
6EENW TIL in China you can order live fish and the fish is cut open, boiled, and served while it is still squirming. Not for the squeamish.
4dAJ TIL that in 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine.
dDKQ7 TIL the Earth is actually 3 million miles closer to the Sun during the winter (Northern Hemisphere) than in the summer
mxPgR TIL that Wilson Greatbatch invented the implantable pacemaker – but he didn’t mean to. He was attempting to build a device that recorded heart rhythms, but after he misassembled the contraption, he noticed that it was giving off a heartbeat-like pulse. The pacemaker went on to save millions of lives