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

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N5EE TIL that a US Air Force Veteran, posing as a Guantanamo Bay inmate for a training routine, was beaten to the point of serious brain injury by guards.
pYwge TIL that the male satin bowerbird only gets its characteristic blue colour at about eight to nine years. Satin bowerbirds live to for about eight to nine years in the wild.
wNZE TIL that McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.
lK TIL that George Eastman, founder of Kodak, shot himself, leaving behind a note that said “To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?”
0wGeR TIL in 1917, 1,300 miners went on strike in Bisbee, AZ over unsafe working conditions, low pay, and long hours. The mining company hired 2,000 men and loaded the strikers at gunpoint into cattle cars for a 16 hour trip through the desert without food or water and left them in New Mexico.