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JYnRk TIL that when the German Bundeswehr adopted the German developed Leopard-2 tank, they demonstrated how good it’s main gun stabiliser was by balancing a stein full of beer on the end of the gun whilst driving off road. Not a drop of beer was spilt.
6EQkW TIL In 1710, famous author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on "the continual Corruption of our English Tongue" in which he described the word "bamboozle" as one of the words that were in his opinion, "corroding, if not destroying, the English language"
m18bE TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'
8RVK TIL Indiana State Prison allows murderers to adopt cats and have them in their cells.
mxKME TIL that context terms used in internet searches change the search results, often leading to confirmation bias. For example, if you search “is X good for you?”, the top results will be sources stating X is good for you. And vice versa.