stackyFACTSThe continuous track, famously used to propel massive military tanks across muddy battlefields, was not originally a weapon of war. It was invented to distribute the immense weight of cumbersome agricultural tractors so they wouldn't permanently sink into soft, waterlogged soil during farming seasons.
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