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TIL in 1970s the USA built and tested hovertrains

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gMMKA TIL In the films "Rocky," (1976) and "Rocky Balboa,"(2006) Rocky's pet turtles were played by the same two turtles.
rNOw1 TIL of August Landmesser, the "lone German man" who refused to give Hitler the nazi salute 'cause he was engaged to a Jewish woman; he was later imprisoned while she was sent to a concentration camp
0WGy TIL humans are the only mammals with permanently swollen breasts. We have boobs all the time, other animals only have them when nursing.
78JPX TIL on January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first known robot fatality.
m5mp TIL that the Buccaneers were originally “legal” pirates of the French and English paid to attack Spanish ships in the caribbean. Their name, buccaneer, stemming from the native ‘buccan’, a wooden rack for smoking meats. They were hired pirates who made and ate Jerkey.