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TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”

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wL8xP TIL if engulfed in flames in a forest fire, some fire trucks can go into burnover mode when a sprinkler system keeps watering the truck (including each tyre) while the fire fighters hide behind heat shields.
d8ldj TIL as the Ford Kuga's name means "plague" in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages, its sales have suffered in these countries.
6ElGQ TIL In all languages, the first Two colors given names are Black and White, the Third is Red
E1lJ7 TIL Natalie Imbruglia’s 1997 hit “Torn” is a cover of a 1993 Danish song called “Burned”.
4XgGo TIL about the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", an anticyclone high pressure wall which was blocking the North Pacific storm track from getting rain to California over the last roughly 8 years, causing the state's recent record breaking drought. It has finally dissipated and now we get rain again.