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TIL the prime minister of Poland is named Donald Tusk

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R7OP4 TIL about Alexander Winton, who built and sold the first American-made gasoline car on March 24, 1898. The public was skeptical. "To advocate replacing the horse, which had served man through centuries, marked one as an imbecile."
PY0KV TIL Tupac Shakur had plans in every big city to meet up with the Drug Dealer King Pins and ask them to keep the streets clean of dealing and shooting von 6am to 11pm for the Kids sake [Starts at 6:17]
KOBmQ TIL that the US Navy has a massive indoor pool called MASK (maneuvering and seakeeping basin) in Maryland that houses 12-million gallons of water and can replicate any ocean wave situation in the world, ideal for testing equipment and scale models of boats
QJLVE TIL that there were over 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations to the Enigma Machine, regarding the codes it could use for messages. Yet, Alan Turing's Bombe machine, through just trial and error, was able to decode messages sent by Germans in 20 minutes.
x6AYo TIL that actors with visible tattoos on screen often need release forms from the tattoo artists to feature their work in films.