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TIL: When city council denied a permit to build on empty lot, a London man applied for a permit for a tank. Thinking it was a water storage container, council approved. Instead the man bought a Russian T-34 tank, parked it on his property and pointed the gun towards the city planning office.

dD8wB TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years
PvNn TIL that only 17% of the Egyptian Population is actually Arab
neNYW TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.
Wk6nA TIL that there are more than 20,000 abandoned villages in Russia.
me9E TIL there is a tree which produces white flowers which are infamous for smelling exactly like semen