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TIL that the US army built a 86 tons tank with a max speed of 13 km/h and managed to lose it for 27 years before finding it in a field. No one knows where it was during this time.

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jNMRM TIL that John F. Kennedy, 2 months before his presidency, was almost assassinated by someone driving a dynamite-lading car into his. This was prevented because the assassin saw his wife and kids bid goodbye to Kennedy, thus changing his mind.
X0XmR TIL that there is an ancient ocean under the Appalachian Mts called the Iapetus Ocean that pre-dates the Atlantic Ocean and salt is harvested from it.
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