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TIL The M1_Abrams was able to run on Jet Fuel, along with diesel, kerosene, and any grade of motor gasoline.

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KO4Ma TIL that since founding the Imagination Library, Dolly Parton has delivered 100 million books. Why? She quotes: "Daddy couldn't read and write, and that was kind of crippling to him"