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TIL that tank silencers exist, and they’re bigger than the tank itself. They cost 100000$ to build.

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neor9 TIL: Bill Nye the Science Guy is related to the founder of Nye Lubricants, whose replacement whale oil led to the international ban against whaling.
yQ5xw TIL that the flavor Blue Raspberry is based on a real fruit, the whitebark Raspberry. Although the fruit’s actual color is a deep purple, the fruit provided a way for candy makers to use blue dye
mr0x TIL that in 2009, a Polish woman filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Egypt after claiming that sperm in the swimming pool got her 13 year old daughter pregnant.
WkjOX TIL In Texas it is legal to hunt feral hogs from helicopters, and they call it "pork chopping"
9wDe7 Til the Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure at 646.30 m (2,120 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It was build to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica.