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TIL Soviet Russia built a flying tank.

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jNndj TIL that hummingbirds burn up to 12,000 calories per day, about six times more than a fully grown average human male.
XE0dX TIL That to calculate the position of the Voyager 1 spacecraft some 12.5 billion miles away, you only need to use the first 15 digits of the value of Pi to be accurate within 1.5 inches
5VKwD TIL that after Dwayne Johnson separated from his ex-wife Dany Garcia, he appointed her as his manager, and she has continued in that role ever since.
Kmy4 TIL thousands of Japanese-Americans served in the U.S. army as segregated unit (442nd) during WWII while their families were locked up in internment camps and became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
16gK8 TIL, in 1998 it took several days to bring down a rogue 25-story tall Canadian weather balloon even after two F-16s fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it. The balloon had severe impact on trans-Atlantic air traffic as airliners were forced to divert from their projected flight paths