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

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VBWMp TIL the Boeing factory in Seattle is so massive that rain clouds began to form inside the facility until a state-of-the-art air circulation system was installed
WkpVo TIL the Planter's Peanut Man's full name is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe.
Z81EY TIL that Steve Jobs was in line to be awarded as Time Magazine's person of the year for 1982 but they decided to give it to a machine after he gave interviews denying paternity of his own daughter and disparaging the mother. The daughter went on to write a book that details how badly he treated her.
xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
4XaYg TIL that in the 1860's an atheist tobacconist named George Hull created a 10-foot stone statue, buried it, then exhumed it a year later as proof of giants, all to mock a bible verse that states giants once lived on the Earth.