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TIL During WW2 in Africa, US tanks were outmatched by superior German tanks. So the US used Jeeps with machine guns to go behind enemy lines to destroy the fuel trucks supplying gas to the German tanks thereby disabling them.

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Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
4X61R TIL all proceeds made by Bad Wolves' rock cover of "Zombie" are being donated to the children of Dolores O'Riordan, the late singer of The Cranberries.
xALb TIL of the “heath pea”, an abundant Scottish plant that, when eaten, effectively stops the sensations of both hunger and thirst for days
4X57w TIL East Germany produced almost unbreakable "superfest" drinking glasses in order to not waste resources. After reunification production was shut down as no manufacturer had any interest in the technology, or in a product which would “slow down” sales
vrQ4 TIL Jake Lloyd, the actor who played young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I, is suffering from schizophrenia and was admitted to a psychiatric facility on April of 2016.