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TIL that there is a Heavy Equipment Playground in Vegas that allows people to “play” with heavy machinery.

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JYmXv TIL that not only is there a difference between male and female tanks, with male tanks having, at the smallest, six-pound guns while female tanks have smaller, typically machine guns, but the French had a tank class called ‘dream of virgin’ in French
ZkXv TIL EA hired people to protest against their own games
1NB4 TIL Kurt Gödel, famous mathematician and contemporary of Einstein, believed there was a loophole in the U.S. Constitution where the U.S. could secretly become a dictatorship.
wLjR8 TIL that Peter Jackson spent the last few years working on a special technology which revives old B&W WW1 footage and is portraying it in full colour in his new movie "They Shall Not Grow Old". Jackson used authentic WW1 uniform and real weaponry which was used back then to create this restoration.
wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.