Pierre Loti, on the occasion of his initiation ceremony as a member of the French Academy in 1892, told his fellow members he had never read anything. Strange when you consider Pierre, who had never read a book, was an author. The British first began to build armored cars based on the American Caterpillar tractor in 1915. It was feared that the enemy might learn of the new weapon too soon. As a result, the factory foremen were instructed to reply to questions that the strange vehicles were cisterns built to carry water to the British troops in the Sahara Desert. They were known as cisterns for some time. Eventually, a shorter word meaning the same thing was substituted. The word was tank. Believe It or Not!
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