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TIL the original Leopard 1 main battle tank was designed by luxury car maker Porsche. Porsche also submitted a design for the WW2 era tiger tank but lost out to a competitor.

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DXbg TIL “thou” was originally the less-formal version of “you”, but since it’s only ever encountered in the Bible nowadays, it sounds more solemn and formal than “you”
X0LEE TIL that in the first administration of the SAT in 1926, test takers had to solve 315 questions in 97 minutes - one question every 18.5 seconds.
xoO1 TIL that with only one exception, the United States Coast Guard does not award the Medal of Honor because it is their belief that nothing is “above and beyond the call of duty”.
5JrB TIL There is a BnB called The Smuggler’s Inn directly on the US-Canadian border. The main attraction is watching smugglers cross the border with night vision binoculars.
J1X9l TIL that Purdue Pharma claimed that oxycontin was not addictive by citing, among others, a document titled "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics" which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine...as a letter to the editor.