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TIL Marvin Heemeyer built a modified bulldozer in 2004, named Killdozer, to destroy his local town over zoning disputes. Killdozer consisted of armored plating, concrete reinforcements, video cameras, monitors and gun-ports for rifles and even included an AC for the inside.

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4kPno TIL that the song of the European Robin can be as loud as 104 decibels, or as loud as a motorcycle. A cooing dove is only about 45 decibels, which is quieter than normal human conversation.
8aoX4 TIL Daniel Day-Lewis, who has won more “Best Actor” Oscars than anyone else, retired from acting in 2017.
jNpAE TIL Since 1991, there are japanese companies which offer family rental services. Actors are hired to act as family members, partners or even parents of clients in need of intimacy and social contact
MYeA TIL New York City residents are among the healthiest, longest living Americans. This is due in part to the large amount of walking NYC-ers are forced to do.
5V9Rp TIL that when Saddam Hussein was hiding in bunkers too deep for any bomb in the US inventory, the US filled an entire 16-foot hardened steel artillery barrel with explosives, welded fins to it and airdropped it, creating the first 'Bunker Buster'. Iraq withdrew from Kuwait the very next day.