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TIL the Toyota War was the end phase of the Libyan-Chadian war where the Chadian army and its Toyota pickups destroyed 92 T-55 battle tanks, 33 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and 784 soldiers while only losing 18 men and three trucks.

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7r0RO TIL Stalin was photographed with three deputies. The first deputy fell out of favour and was doctored out of the photo. The second duty eventually fell out of favour and was also removed. After the last deputy fell out of favour, only Stalin remained in the re-re-re-edited photo.
5Ynvk TIL that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct a film adaption of H.P Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness but it was cancelled by Universal due to the fact it was R-rated
XEYLR TIL Over 5% of Americans Are Millionaires
grAg7 TIL the 'Longest' word has 189,819 letters and takes three hours to pronounce
1abkP TIL that there are 46 prescription drugs that can cause drug-induced Lupus symptoms.