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TIL Alexander the great named a city after his horse

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wLxR7 TIL in 1985 the US tested a robotic anti-aircraft tank, the M247 Sergeant York. The tank malfunctioned and locked its guns onto a review stand packed with top generals. Mercifully it didn't fire, but did subsequently attack a portable toilet instead of a target drone.
Oonr6 TIL a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3. We know the number 627, for instance, is divisible by 3 because 6+2+7=15, which is divisible by 3.
YNDG TIL that the US military briefly investigated the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a comedic publication satirizing academia, after finding their joke article on how to build a nuclear bomb filed away at the abandoned Al Qaeda headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.
VKL8 TIL Chris Pratt was ‘discovered’ while working at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Hawaii after the Director said, “you’re funny, audition for my movie.
4XXmX TIL In many states a military dishonorable discharge is deemed the equivalent of a felony conviction, with attendant loss of civil rights including not being allowed to own or possess a firearm.