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TIL the Hungarians use a pair of jet engines mounted on a tank to extinguish oil fires

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WDON TIL of Fritz Haber, a German Chemist who is responsible for both developing ammonia based fertilizers, which has helped feed and sustain the modern worlds population, and various chemical weapons such as chlorine gas, which is resulted in some of the worlds greatest atrocities.
p8BLN TIL that the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director at the time, refused to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia. It was only when a local state trooper watched the home of mobster Joe Barbara on a hunch, that he stumbled onto a meeting of around 100 members, confirming their existence.
wmbE TIL Ryan built the car he used in Drive. The director said, “Ryan wanted to build his own car. So the car, the Malibu, the old gray car he drives around, he built himself. He took it apart and put it back together.”
yV84J TIL Mary Anning was an early collector of fossils, including ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, and pterosaur. She is also the inspiration for the tongue twister, “She sells sea shells by the sea shore.”
4X6vo TIL George Harrison once told Art Garfunkel at a party, “My Paul is to me what your Paul is to you”, referring to feeling overshadowed and under appreciated.