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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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VBEOk TIL pink was the colour for boys in the early 20th century
4XWAR TIL that the names at the 9/11 memorial are not organized alphabetically, by company or location, but rather by how close of a relationship that person had with those names around them.
WkdbN TIL the following graffito message was found painted on the entrance a late 2nd century CE ancient Roman family tomb: "I remember touching the buttocks of a certain girl, whose ashes cover the golden earth."
jNrON TIL after China made a ripoff of American cartoon "The Amazing World of Gumball", the "Gumball" creators added the ripoff characters to the show as a group of money-grubbing copycats.
W79E8 TIL Canada developed the Ross Rifle because the British wouldn't give them Lee-Enfields during the 1899–1902 South African War. After the war the British urged Canada to switch to the Lee-Enfield but Canada refused. Ross Rifle proved ineffective in WW1 and Canada switched to the Lee-Enfield in 1916.