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TIL "Mudlarks" were folks who scavenged the muddy rivers in London in the 18th & 19th centuries at low tide in order to sell anything they found.

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RO78 TIL The Object 269, created by Soviet engineers in 1959, was a tank that was designed to survive a nuclear explosion.
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