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TIL that the only Mazda Furai ever made, burned down during a Top Gear photo session in 2008. The wherabouts of the remains of that car is not publically known.

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loKB TIL an Inuit man escaped a Canadian settlement by defecating in his hand and forming a knife then killing a dog and using its rib cage as a dog sled.
eOm4 TIL when Private 1st Class Edward H. Ahrens in WWII was found clutching a sword surrounded by 13 dead Japanese soldiers, his final words were “I guess they didn’t know I was a marine.”
v1OrD TIL of Larry Walters, who in 1982 rode a lawn chair attached to helium balloons to 16,000 feet. He ended up floating in the path of pilots at LAX Airport. Armed with a pellet gun, he controlled his descent by firing the gun at the balloons, popping them one by one.
PYNJE TIL about Project Mohole, a failed attempt in the 1960s to drill all the way through the Earth’s crust to reach the mantle
LQkWm TIL that otters have skin pockets. Where they keep their favourite rocks.