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OGOB1 TIL that the United Kingdom, the nation that invented the first tanks during WWI, was seriously considering retiring its entire main battle tank fleet as of 2020.
690QJ TIL the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress' official nickname is "BUFF" which is an acronym for "Big Ugly Fat Fucker"
j6y4v Today I learned the holes in Swiss cheese come from a specific bacteria called Propionibacterium freudenrichii subspecies shermanii, which converts milk into carbon dioxide at the warm temperature of 70°F; when the cheese cools, the air bubbles are left behind