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TIL No M1 Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by an enemy tank.

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kR61 TIL of Luigi Cadorna, Italian WWI general. Infamously inept, he sent 300k troops to die in the Alps, randomly executing his own soldiers to motivate them.
4Xpmw TIL that over five million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost dried up completely (after the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar) and when the strait opened up again it refilled somewhat rapidly in the event know as the Zanclean Flood.
0ded1 TIL the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) in New York enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of NYC. Its loss galvanized the historic preservation movement
nWwNo TIL there's a type of tree in Cancun called the "tourist tree" because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of the sunburnt tourists in the region
GY45g TIL about the Akwesasne community, a Mohawk community along the US-Canada border. Part of the main village is Quebec's only exclave and is only accessible by New York.