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TIL You’re supposed to fill your tires with the amount of air specified on the sticker in your door jamb, not the max pressure listed on the side wall.

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p8YZA TIL that three stray dogs saved nearly 50 soldier's lives in Afghanistan in 2010 after they fought off a suicide bomber. Two of the dogs survived and were taken to the U.S. to be reunited with the soldiers after $21,000 was raised on Facebook.
NXwxJ TIL Woody Allen the 4-time Oscar winner and 16-time Oscar nominated married his step daughter when Woody Allen was 62 and his step daughter was 27 making her 35 years younger than him.
W7jpX TIL Michelin (the tire/food rating company) produced maps so accurately, that the US military in WWII (and thus the western allies) simply updated an older edition, and printed them to sheets to be distributed to officers, NCOs and obviously command positions.
kv95 TIL Bill Murray agreed to play the role of Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters only if he could use the original script written for the late John Belushi, who the character was written for, as a tribute.
mxWlP TIL of the gulf war gameboy. As if the console's long lifespan from 1989-003 wasn't impressive enough. A soldier's gameboy suffered a bomb explosion and was still fully playable.