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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the tank he drove during military service

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k8Km TIL that Harvard University stopped requiring final exams because they were deemed “inefficient and worthless.” They even require professors to fill out a special form if they wish to give a final.
BgXLD TIL "All Quiet on the Western Front" was banned in Nazi Germany because it protrayed the fultility of war (during WWI) and was deemed counterproductive to the German rearmament program prior to WWII.
GYayE TIL that in 564 BC during the ancient Greek Olympics, a man won in the Pankration (a mixture of boxing and wrestling) despite being dead.
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