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TIL that in 1909, the US built an Unsinkable “Concrete Battleship” in the Philippines

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XEa9P TIL Toyota logo in 1936 is “TEQ”
JVKl TIL: On Nixon’s Inauguration Day, LBJ pulled out a cigarette—his first since his heart attack. One of his daughters pulled it out of his mouth saying “Daddy, what are you doing? You’re going to kill yourself.” He replied, “I’ve now raised you girls. I’ve now been President. Now it’s my time!”.
8ak64 TIL Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilising 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like a flute or organ
GAZLQ TIL A crackdown in 2015 seized over 100,000 tonnes of illicit frozen meat in the PRC, some of which was over 40 years old.
bLWE TIL that Isaac Asimov once said “I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory (Israel) only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there.”