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TIL – The Airbus A380 has flown on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel made from cooking oil and waste fats. The flight lasted 3 hours and used only 1 engine.

by whatilearned June 29, 2022, 3:36 am

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TIL in July of 2021 a British plane spotter noticed sparks coming off an F-15E Strike Eagle’s engine after it took off from RAF Lakenheath. He called the base’s switchboard to alert the base and the plane returned safely. The pilot publicly thanked him and gave him his insignia patch.

by whatilearned June 16, 2022, 2:59 am

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Which country has a search engine called as Baidu?

by QuestionGuy June 5, 2022, 11:14 am

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TIL a modern Formula 1 car costs over $20 Million to build, with almost 90% of the cost being the engine.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 6:55 am

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TIL the Boeing 747 can carry an extra engine on its wing. Airlines used to use this capability regularly, when engines were less reliable, to deliver replacements to their stranded planes.

by whatilearned May 29, 2022, 12:02 pm

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TIL the 1960’s Pink Panther car was custome built on an Oldsmobile Chassis & V8 engine. Instead of a rearview mirror it had a camera and back and black & white television monitor. The ‘Panthermobile’ cost $100,000 to build, equivalent to $476,000 in 2021.

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 11:18 am

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TIL that Thomas the Tank Engine has several real replicas of the well-known locomotive. They greet tourists throughout Europe, North America, and Japan on heritage railways as part of a “Day Out with Thomas”.

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 5:39 am

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What is the human equivalent of our check engine light coming on?

by QuestionGuy May 19, 2022, 10:25 pm

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TIL that in 1956, an F11 Tiger test pilot outran his own bullets from his plane’s 20mm cannon. After taking at least three hits from his own bullets, his plane crashed short of the runway after the engine failed. The pilot survived.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 11:16 pm

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TIL that the first Fast and Furious movie was loosely based on Rafael Estevez’ street racing career, and the first drag wars which was sponsored by Penzoil and HKS, in which he did a 11.36 second pass with a turboed Integra GSR engine in a 92 Civic, claiming the title of fastest east coast civic.

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 4:28 pm

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TIL that in 1945, Lycoming built the largest piston aircraft engine ever – with 36 cylinders, 127 liters of displacement and 5,000 hp.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 12:11 am

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Thomas the tank engine being interrogated

by CopyPastaArchive April 29, 2022, 4:18 pm

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