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TIL that Toyota built a monster truck version of its Sienna minivan and dubbed it a UUV (Ultimate Utility Vehicle).

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OGex7 Today I learned that all planets are round because of gravitational forces.
5V9mP TIL that 2012 research of carbon particle fulleren C60 resulted in interesting side effect: doubling of rats lifespan to 5+ years
8MlK TIL that the Mongols’ military tactics were so fierce that they would catapult diseased corpses over city walls to infect the population and even rerouted rivers after a city had fallen so that it could never rise again
MZyV TIL that the Soviet Union could have vetoed the Korean War, but did not. Their delegates were boycotting the UN over a separate issue when the resolution was proposed.
oB9XE TIL that the Spanish flu killed more people in 1 year than AIDS did in 40, and more than the bubonic plague did in a century.