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It’s also really important to not put gasoline in your gas tank.

by CopyPastaArchive September 4, 2022, 11:13 pm

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TIL: Diving too deep in water increases the nitrogen concentration in your blood and will make you feel drunk and confused. Adding Helium to a SCUBA tank will reduce this because unlike nitrogen, helium does not have a narcotic effect.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL in 1972, diver Bret Gilliam survived a 325+ ft ascent, with an empty oxygen tank, after trying to save a colleague from attacking sharks.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 10:09 am

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TIL the Jawa sandcastle sandcrawler model was mistaken for a tank by Libya when Lucas filmed in Tunisia and Muammar Gaddafi ordered Lucas to back off or he’d attack

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 4:05 pm

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The M1 Abrams tank

by CopyPastaArchive August 24, 2022, 5:31 pm

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TIL 36-yr-old Jamie Siminoff founded the company Doorbot in 2013 and went on Shark Tank to raise $700k. Jamie refused the lone shark offer from Kevin, rebranded the company as Ring, brought on Shaquille O’Neal as investor and spokesperson, and in 2018 sold Ring to Amazon for $1.2-1.8 billion.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 7:09 pm

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TIL the “tank” was named by the British military during WWI to make the enemy think they were developing a kind of water carrier instead of a secret new weapon.

by whatilearned August 7, 2022, 2:20 am

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Two fish are in a tank

by cringeyjokesman August 2, 2022, 11:25 am

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TIL Every single British tank has a built in boiling vessel so the crew can have cheeky mid-battle tea breaks

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 4:33 am

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TIL about “Bomb” a Canadian Sherman M4A2 tank that landed on Juno Beach on D Day and fought across Europe every day until the the words “Unload, clear guns, the war is over” came over the radio, indicating the end of the war. 4000km travelled, never missed a day of combat.

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 2:56 am

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You’re driving a tank around town destroying everything in your path. What song are you blasting during your trail of destruction?

by QuestionGuy July 23, 2022, 11:11 pm

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TIL a septic tank is a kind of bioreactor as the sewage is fully processed by bacteria

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 12:18 pm

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