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TIL Austria's Coat of Arms is the last to feature a hammer and sickle in Europe

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MEe8 TIL No M1 Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by an enemy tank.
mL7P TIL that the medieval French Chapelle de Bethléem has been restored with grotesques referencing popular culture, including Gremlins and Alien.
E1PJW TIL Bonnie and Clyde were so impressed by the 1934 Ford V-8 Model B, that they wrote a letter to Henry Ford expressing that the Model B was the perfect getaway car.
Y7ZJW TIL there is such a thing as an antimatter factory- and one is currently active at CERN.
N71xe TIL about Baun the Cat, a cat in Russian fairy tales that has a voice that can cure any sickness. The cat mostly uses its voice to make people sleep in order to eat them though. In stories, the only way to defeat this cat was to wear an iron helmet to block its voice.