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TIL about the Puckle Gun, an early automatic weapon designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at Muslim Turks. Square bullets were believed to cause more severe wounds than round ones.

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GYjm5 TIL that PART OF YOUR WORLD was almost cut from The Little Mermaid. During an early screening, the producer ordered to remove it, saying it was "too boring." The animators begged him to give it a 2nd chance, as the scene was incomplete. So, they finished it up and showed it again, which did well.
wrMJ TIL millions of bats in North America are dying from a disease called White Nose Syndrome. Scientists don’t know how to treat the illness. In 2008 an estimated 2.4 million pounds of insects went uneaten due to the diminished bat population, causing major strain on agriculture in New England.
KZAQ TIL Whenever Hugh Hefner’s daughter, Christie, came to visit the Playboy Mansion as a teenager, “the mansion was cleaned up with all the kinky stuff put away” in an effort to keep her from knowing what was going on. She later became president of the company.
NXMa1 TIL Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet or use of the word “crap” but he did work as a sanitation engineer and his toilets are probably responsible for the use of the phrase “going to the crapper.”
XleX TIL that Leo Major, a French Canadian soldier in WWII, singlehandedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle from an occupying German force, killing and capturing dozens of enemy soldiers in the process.