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TIL that military tanks are called tanks because the secret program they were developed under was disquised as being about moving water tanks.

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womnY TIL about The Great Tantra Challenge, a live event in which Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, challenged a tantrik to kill him with only magic. After multiple failed attempts, the tantrik claimed Sanal was under the protection of a powerful god, to which Sanal replied that he was an atheist.
P1YjV TIL France charges tire manufacturers a tax of about $1 per tire to pay for tire recycling. The penalty for non payment is $8,000 per tire. This is how you recycle.
wLEXM TIL: The poorest President in the world was former Uruguay President Jose Mujica, who only received a monthly salary of $7.5k. He gave away 90% of his salary and only declared $1.8k as his wealth in 2010, his 1987 Volkswagon.
Z8d7D TIL "Bir Tawil" is one of the few places on Earth not claimed by any country. An American trekked there and claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess.
E1a4w TIL in WW2 they used special smoke screens that were that were half a mile long and hundreds of feet tall to hide ships and blimps from enemies.