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TIL in 2014 Congress spent $120 million on tanks even though the Military repeatedly told them they have no use for them. For the second time.

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yVXkJ TIL that unlike humans with 46 total chromosomes, great apes such as the chimpanzee have 48. So do potatoes. No, there is no relation.
ZpaGQ TIL Cambridge university didn't grant degrees to women till 1948 and remained the only university to do so by that time.
QJrEd TIL that the movies E.T. the Extra-terrestrial and Poltergeist were both inspired by an unproduced sci-fi horror film conceived by Steven Spielberg called Night Skies.
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