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TIL There was a fake gamer cruise event called The Gamer Gauntlet

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kg5g TIL During WW2 in Africa, US tanks were outmatched by superior German tanks. So the US used Jeeps with machine guns to go behind enemy lines to destroy the fuel trucks supplying gas to the German tanks thereby disabling them.
OrRX TIL Sacheen Littlefeather, who was sent by Marlon Brando to decline an Oscar in protest for the treatment of American Indians by the film industry, was given 60 seconds maximum to make her speech or be arrested.
N7QAJ TIL that professional actor John Bradley (who portrayed Samwell Tarley in the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones) had only graduated from drama school three months before landing his GOT role, which was also his first audition.
jNKVp TIL Dadarao Bilhore has filled over 600 potholes in India in memory of his son who died in a pothole-caused accident. It is estimated over 15,000 people a year die to pothole accidents in India.
neMkB TIL that some skeletons found of now extinct species of sloth suggest some varieties used to be as large as elephants. The Megatherium being one of them.