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TIL some models of Caterpillar haul trucks (big dump trucks used in mining) are so big that they are delivered in pieces from factories around America, and assembled on site by qualified technicians.

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EgdbV TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps, surviving both. Diors first perfume, Miss Dior, was named after her.
BgNZr TIL that in 1982 all five TV Emmy award nominees for Best Actor were from one show, Hill Street Blues
ZPYR TIL that in WWI Canadian soldiers used urine-soaked cloths as primitive respirators against chemical attacks. The ammonia in urine would react with the chlorine, neutralizing it, and that the water would dissolve the chlorine, allowing the soldiers to breathe through the gas.
rR81W TIL autistic people will choose the economically disadvantageous option, if it coincides with their morality, even if it brings no social benefit
5grp TIL that the last words of famed cartoon voice-man Mel Blanc to his son were “I love you”, in the voice of Yosemite Sam; the final words he spoke before he died was “That’s all folks” in the voice of Porky Pig, which is also carved on his tombstone.