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TIL that the Indian Arjun MBT uses a specialized cannon round called Penetration Cum Blast (PCB)

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R7ZB6 TIL about Steve Rothstein, who bought a lifetime unlimited First Class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. That ticket with his flights (listed as being over 10,000) cost the company over $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.
9JaX TIL archive.org has a DMCA preservation exemption that LEGALLY allows download of 42gb of MAME ROMs
R5ZNa TIL that autorevolvers exist. A marriage of revolvers and semi-auto pistols that use both a cylinder and recoil to recock the hammer. Examples include the Landstad and Mateba.
kxA1 TIL that it was believed that women with bound feet developed extra strong vaginal muscles because of the mincing steps they took, thus making sex more pleasurable.
R5N9j TIL the first recorded use of suicide bombs in warfare was actually during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and 1938 Battle of Taierzhuang with three instances of Chinese Nationalist soldiers destroying invading Japanese tanks and infantry platoons by strapping explosive grenade belts to themselves