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TIL Andre the Giant once drank 156 beers in one sitting and his alcohol tolerance was used as a guideline for anesthesiologists when he underwent surgery.

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kxyW TIL 1,300 German Tiger I tanks were produced during WWII. As of June 2013, only 7 tanks remain intact and only one of those tanks are operational, Tank 131. This tank will be featured in the upcoming Brad Pitt film, FURY, the first time an operational Tiger I tank has ever been in film.
dX0d TIL that the Eagles football team had a temporary court set up in their stadium for six years due to their fans bad behavior.
wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
MeJK7 TIL that Edgar Degas’ statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, depicting a Paris “opera rat,” was reviled by critics in 1881 as “repulsive” and “vicious.” Today, the original sculpture is at the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and bronze casts made after his death can be found in many other museums.
Y57r TIL: The Japanese consider sleeping at work honorable as it signals exhaustion from hard work