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TIL: You can buy a Russian T-72 tank for only $50,000

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R406 TIL Dark Side Of The Moon has been on the Billboard 200 chart for over 16 years, and is still on the chart today.
ADQy7 TIL that the common tumbleweed (Kali tragus), although used in Westerns to symbolize frontier areas of the United States, is actually an invasive plant from Russia. In the 1870s, it appeared in South Dakota when flaxseed from Russia turned out to be contaminated with Kali seeds.
pYaBQ TIL there is a medical term for the head rush you get from standing up too fast; 'Orthostatic Hypotension'
DnLY TIL that Nirvana was kicked out of their own release party for Nevermind because of a food fight.
dnBE TIL that famed pharaoh Sesostris would erect a giant statue of a vagina if he felt a defeated army had offered little resistance