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TIL that they don't actually make round steel tanks they make rough octagon tanks then explode them into round ones

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e9Qb TIL: World of Beer has an internship, called “Drink it Interns,” that pays $12,000 for four months to travel, drink beer and write about it. Plus all travel paid for!
7k6M TIL G.I. stood for General Issue, or Government Issue, and that soldiers sardonically referred to themselves as “G.I.” = “General Issue” items, all equally as disposable as helmets, boots, tents, canteens, rifles, jeeps, trucks, tanks, and combat aircraft.
d89P8 TIL men with "madonna whore complex" are only sexual attracted to slutty women (whores) but cannot love such a woman. They can love a chaste partner (a madonna) but not be sexually attracted to them.
4kV5 TIL Alan Turing (the father of Computers and AI) is most cited for a paper on biology
9wDOm TIL during World War II, Allied prisoners of war in Colditz Castle built a full-size glider plane in the attic. The plan was to cut a hole in the roof from the attic and then fly the plane to safety. It never flew, but it was completed shortly before the POWs were liberated.