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TIL that the instruction manual for the WW2 Tiger tank was written in poetry, and features ‘a woman who frequently found herself without any clothes with cartoon Tiger crewmen’

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grm8D TIL there's a novel out of Canada where a woman falls in love with a bear (and yes they do it) "the best Canadian novel of all time.", "quintessential Canadian book", "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian." and "spiritual gangrene... a Faustian compact with the Devil."
Go4E TIL 67 years ago today, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. He completed the flight with two broken ribs, and as a result of the injury, had to close the hatch on the Bell X-1 with a broomstick.
L9VV TIL When China was selecting female astronauts for its space mission the women were required to be married, to have given birth naturally and to neither have decayed teeth nor scars.
NWGE TIL that when turkeys were reintroduced to New England, they chose to live in cities instead of the forests turkeys as living in tandem with humans dramatically improved their survival rate
kJaGe TIL: That the Federal Reserve is sitting on an unused $1 billion stock pile of $1 coins minted at an expense of around $300 million, partly because despite numerous attempts Americans do not want to use the coins but prefer to use the paper note instead