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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL from the army to compete in a bodybuilding competition. When he was caught sneaking back on post his superiors found out he won and he was given 3 hours a day to work out for the rest of his time in service.

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8mRa TIL: In an effort to fight oil well fires, Hungarian engineers recycled a Russian T-34 tank, and replaced the gun turret with two Mig-21 jet engines. The team would inject water into the exhaust of the engines and literally blow an oil well fire out. They called the device Big Wind.
W7919 TIL That Thomas Edison's engineers invented the first "talking doll" back in 1877
gMMx8 Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time — are a big deal in the world of science. Here's a video that helps explain how they work.
p8mLA TIL in WWII, Italian doctors made up a disease to save Jews from the Nazis. "Syndrome K" was said to be a deadly, highly contagious, disfiguring disease and the doctors saved at least 20 Jews by quarantining them.
OoMjR TIL of The Shell Grotto, a mysterious underground chamber discovered in a back garden in the South East of England during the Victorian era. Buried a few feet underground, it was excavated and found to contain myriad religious symbols from around the world. It’s origins remain a mystery.