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TIL: You can buy a Russian T-72 tank for only $50,000
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TIL that there are more Lebanese descendants in Brazil than people living in Lebanon
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TIL of the longest word in Greek, a dish invented by the ancient comedian Aristophanes: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. Made of dogfish and pigeon.
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TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.
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TIL that the Shroud of Turin (allegedly Jesus Christ’s burial shroud) may have been created using a lost form of medieval photography
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TIL that the hands of former Argentine president Juan Perón were stolen from his tomb in 1987 and are still missing