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TIL a Hungarian team mounted mig fighter jet engines on a Russian T-34 tank and used the beast to snuff out oil fires like a candle

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4XQp5 TIL of Lois Gibson, a forensic artist whose sketches have led to the arrest of over 1,200 criminals. One of her sketches was the first ever used on America's Most Wanted, and she's known for her uncanny accuracy.
yQkYe TIL the Greeks often described foreign languages as sounding like "bar bar bar." Anyone who spoke a foreign language was called a Barbarian.
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
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b9Ap4 TIL part of Washington, DC was returned to Virginia in 1846 in a process called "retrocession," but the sections donated by Maryland have resisted the idea of being reunited with Maryland.