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TIL electric cars can drive through deep water unscathed

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4Xkvb TIL that the SR-71 Blackbird was purposely designed with gaps in the body and would leak fuel, upon reaching high speeds the body would heat up and the gaps would close.
4X7R TIL A kid lied to his friends about being Jay Leno’s nephew. He wrote Leno who then dropped him off at school at the kid’s request. [Story at 10:31]
njkd TIL Dogs can be trained to drive specially modified cars, more specifically; Mini Coopers.
xVZd1 TIL No one can figure out how eels have sex
v1AKK TIL Mark Twain wrote an anti-imperial response to Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' entitled 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness'. The essay is considered one of Twain's darkest and most sarcastic works, openly criticizing missionaries, profiteers, and the brutality of colonialism.