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TIL gangs in China have used armored stealth boats in order to smuggle cars into the country

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aw9oN TIL that Iraq dug extensive trenches prior to the Gulf War. The US army responded by mounting plows on tanks, and drove them through 70 miles of trenches guarded by 8,000 soldiers. Most Iraqi soldiers were buried alive, making a body count impossible. There were zero American casualties.
mxKeE TIL that jail is where you stay if you did something that made you stay behind bars for less than a year and prison is for when it is for more than a year.
gMKMX TIL Marty Robbins, (The Big Iron guy) is a really big anti-communist, and he wrote a song about it.
rg54 TIL that photographer Michal Huniewicz overrode his camera’s firmware to hide & not delete photos while he was in North Korea. He did this because guards & officials would take his camera from time to time & delete photos. This override allowed him to bring back these rare pictures of North Korea.
BanK TIL David Prowse, who physically portrayed Darth Vader, helped train Christopher Reeve for his role in Superman and Cary Elwes for The Princess Bride.