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TIL about 'Pluto Lamps', Victorian Era street lights that sold hot coffee and soup.

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e04VE TIL about grain entrapment where farmers get engulfed in grain in silos and quite often die.
ax0b TIL that this young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book.
Ypnmv TIL in 2006 the Space Integration Branch of the U.S. Marine Corps in Arlington, VA began developing sub-orbital spaceships to move troops anywhere on the planet in under two hours. Marine Colonel Jack Wassink expects the first prototype to be ready in 2021.
rNNbo TIL during WW2, Germany experimented with rocket powered submarines. They could reach underwater speeds of 28.1 knots (52.0 km/h; 32.3 mph).
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