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TIL that somebody once tried to make a flying Ford Pinto and that the inventor died when it crashed during a test flight due to one of the wing struts failing.[0]

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Miza

now some tram stuff

this is a really nice picture of all the layers of this w-tram track system, so the rails are laid on few sleepers (there aren't any missing, you only need one every few meters), then fixated in a layer of concerete, which is then covered with a road surface
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Another neotenic salamander species is the Olm[0], which is an old world species that is blind and lives in caves.

[0] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm

Also according to Wikipedia, the name for Bonobos (formally known as Pygmy Chimpanzees despite being a seperate species) comes from a mispelling. [0]

[0] "The name is thought to be a misspelling on a shipping crate from the town of Bolobo on the Congo River near the location from which the first bonobo specimens were collected in the 1920s." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo

TIL that axolotl are neotenic.[0] There are rare instancea of axolotl going through metamorphosis to become terrestrial. However, if this occurs after sexual maturity the axolotl will not survive more than one or two years.[1]
[0] "axolotl ... is a neotenic salamander related to the tiger salamander." Wikipedia
[1] axolotl.org/tiger_salamander.h

I was attacked by the dead. This is truly horrifying.

— Ubbul Asobturel, Fish Cleaner

I'm thirsty. I'm very irritated by this.

— Vucar Otsusunib, bookkeeper

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New version of GNU Unifont with the Reiwa (令和) Japanese Era Character has been released.

There's this guy at the train station yelling "stanky butt dick, that's my name".

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欧尼亚米斯王立宇宙军中心基地

一个私人长毛象实例。名称是从电影「王立宇宙军」而来的。