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TIL there are only two places in the world where civilians are legally allowed to drive and fire tanks and one of them is in Minnesota.

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jNy5E TIL of an organization called 'Bikers Against Child Abuse,' a group of bikers who protect victims of child abuse by standing guard at their house and accompany them into court to testify when they are too afraid to face their abuser.
gMdn7 TIL in 2010, an octopus from Germany named Paul would predict how every game in the FIFA World Cup would go. He ended up being 100% correct with every choice he made.
GY5PJ TIL that the population of all the western Canadian provinces and all the territories combined are still less in total than Ontario alone.
9w7ZX TIL R. Norris Williams survived the sinking of the Titanic clinging to an overturned lifeboat. The injuries to his legs were such the doctors aboard rescue ship suggested amputation. He refused and instead went on to recover his faculties and eventually winning the tennis Olympic gold medal in 1924.
yere TIL the original version of the French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost in a fire, the master negatives were found 53 years later in a Norwegian mental institute by a janitor in a closet.