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TIL of 21-year-old Lieutenant Zvika Greengold, an Israeli tank officer who fought in the Yom Kippur War for 30 hours straight, destroyed up to 60 enemy tanks (swapping his own every time he sustained damage), and fooled the Syrians into believing they were facing a company sized force.

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VMlpZ TIL Pythagoras had a weird cult that lasted for centuries after his death. They worshiped numbers, invented the first robot (a steam-powered pigeon) and were afraid of beans because they cause excessive flatulence. He was murdered when he was chased to a bean field and refused to cross it.
gMkbL TIL that growing up as a hungry child, Cristiano Ronaldo would knock on the door of a McDonald's asking if they had any burgers. A lady called Edna and two other women would then help him by giving him something to eat.
m1E5P TIL that Austrian police once locked a suspect in a basement interrogation room and forgot him there, accidentally making him the reigning world record holder for "longest survival without either food or water" (18 days).
16OO TIL that, contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.
DQ4LV TIL a New Mexico judge came up with the electronic ankle monitor from reading a Spider-Man newspaper comic strip in 1977