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TIL That 2 damaged Israeli Centurion tanks during the Yom Kippur War, fought & completely destroyed 60 Syrian T-55’s & T-62’s, annihilating the Tank division in the Golan Heights and ultimately halting their advance.

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rR8e0 TIL the spiked ball and chain was never an actually used in warfare; it is entirely a fantasy weapon invented by later peoples but attributed to the middle ages
x6Beo TIL that humans can learn to use echolocation to perceive detailed information about the location, density, and dimension of the objects in their surroundings (as bats do).
E1AxW TIL the sausage McMuffin is actually made of beef and not pork.
M77b8 TIL of Mary Anning, who discovered, with her brother, the first ichthyosaur fossil at age 12. She would go on to discover many more fossils and revolutionize the science of paleontology. However, due to being a woman in the early 1800s, she rarely received full credit for her discoveries.
vPbMD TIL about the unsung 'Brendas' who answered obscene helpline calls