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TIL During WWII the Russians had their own independently developed “Jeep”, but because the Americans sent so many Jeeps to help, the Russians turned their own Jeeps into thousands of little armored cars. They were surprisingly successful and widely exported after the war.

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neR9B TIL: In the 1990s, two Boeing 737s (one in 1991 near Colorado Springs, the other in 1994 near Pittsburgh) crashed due to a design flaw that let the rudder move on its own without warning, which killed 157 in total. In 1996, a third aircraft experienced the same issue but landed safely in Richmond.
xP6g TIL that an Australian man survived a kangaroo attack by delivering a knockout punch to the kangaroo’s face.
KYVQ6 TIL there is a belief amongst some Catholics known as 'Benevacantism'; the belief that Pope Benedict XVI's resignation was not valid, meaning that the current Pope Francis has been an 'antipope', or illegitimate pretender to the papacy, this entire time
8ayob TIL about body snatchers aka "resurrection men", paid men that were ought to do grave-robbing. These men provided a number of schools with cadavers, and members of the schools would use influence to keep these men out of jail. People (alive) used Railings to protect graves from body snatchers.
nW0n9 TIL the late actor Roddy McDowall was raided by the FBI in 1974 for owning hundreds of illegal film prints. To avoid being criminally charged himself, he ratted out other celebrities who had purchased films from bootleggers.