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TIL that the UK banned a disabled man’s wheelchair because it is technically a tank

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VBjG8 TIL There was a class of small tanks between the 1920s and 40s called Tankettes
OyoR TIL in the 50’s, there were so many Congressional hearings on Communists and homosexuals infiltrating the government that one congressman said: “I do not know what homosexuals are, but I never saw anybody get as much free advertising in the Congress of the United States in all my life.”
ADB7d TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand
VM66p TIL of Lester Patrick, a coach for the New York Rangers who played at goalie in the 1928 Stanley Cup Finals while the head coach and GM for the team.
oBX8L TIL people would come and go during movies before Psycho. Hitchcock required theaters to not allow people in after it started. It was after that when people would watch entire movies more regularly from start to end