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TIL that there is a place in Minnesota where you can drive a tank, and smash cars with it

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D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”
P1epZ TIL loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day
vPXv7 Today I learned: the average cloud weighs 600 tonnes, and the sun heats up the air causing it to rise and push up the clouds keeping them high in the sky
WoJY TIL camel bites can cause your bones to dissolve
Y1aZ TIL that scientists recently discovered giant viruses (as big as 1 μm in length), named Pandoraviruses. Because more than 93% of their genes resemble nothing known and their origin cannot be traced back to any known cellular lineage, scientists suggest the existence of a 4th domain of life