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TIL about the all-in-one monster Soviet Antarctic ATVs

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Wk4A4 TIL Archimedes's cattle problem, a 2 millenium-old poem containing an arithmetical problem which involves computing the number of cattle the sun god's herd, was discovered in 1773. It took 107 years for it to be solved. The answer was 7.76x10^206544, more cattle than could fit in the universe.
6EQvW TIL that a rancher in Oregon named Bill Brown would often write checks on any paper available. This often included soup can labels and newspaper margins. As he was rich and known for this, the banks would cash the checks without question.
Jjyv TIL that no one knows what the Greeks called themselves. “Greek” was simply a name the Romans called them for their surrounding geological location.
am1b TIL while Paul Revere had a famous 15 mile ride to alert the colonists of the British invasion, Israel Bissel rode 345miles starting that same night warning every town from Boston to New York to Philadelphia that the war had begun.
dDVE9 TIL of the "NanoHedgehog" - a molybdene compound that is large enough to be compared with proteins