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TIL that the East German Trabant had a body made of recycled cotton waste and resin called Duroplast. It also didn’t have a fuel gauge, requiring its owner to regularly check the fuel with a dipstick.

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TIL that the East German Trabant had a body made of recycled cotton waste and resin called Duroplast. It also didn’t have a fuel gauge, requiring its owner to regularly check the fuel with a dipstick.

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TIL about Coagula, DC Comics’ first transgender superhero; she was introduced in a 1993 story (“The Laughing Game”) where she defeats The Codpiece, a spurned-man-turned-villain with a multifunctional mechanical codpiece.

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