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TIL Tanks are called tanks because, when they were introduced in WWI, the British were trying to fool the Germans into thinking the weapons were water carriers for the Middle Eastern front of the war.

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VMJbZ TIL When the show of comedian Benny Hill was cancelled, it devastated him and his health started to decline. However, fans of his show continued pushing for a new series. A company saw this and sent him an offer for some specials. It arrived in the mail on the same day he died.
5VYN8 TIL in 2008, a woman died of blunt force craniocerebral trauma when a 75-pound (34 kg) spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and knocked her over onto the deck of the vessel she was aboard. The spotted eagle ray also died at impact.
8ajBX TIL that when Medieval monks would fast for religious reasons they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food, since drinking did not count as "food".
GA55G TIL: Maria Rasputin, Rasputin's daughter, after his death worked as a cabaret dancer, then for the Busch Circus. In one season, she became a lion tamer. She was eventually mauled by a bear and left the circus to work as a riveter in the US before dying in LA.
nWgJB TIL in 1976 A network of Non-Profit Wilderness and Residential Therapy Programs for Troubled Kids spanning the US was discovered to be a front for CSAM and child prostitution. They got access to at-risk youth and funding through county, state and federal agencies upwards of $700 per month per child