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TIL: Combination weapons such as a Gun-Axe, Mace-Pistol, or Pistol-Falchion were real and date back hundreds of years. In the 1500s -1800s since guns only fired one shot, they attached them to various weapons such as the German Axe-Pistol. In some cases they attached a gun to a shield.

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5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.
0w0gN TIL: To this day Wisconsin still has not elected a single Native American to Congress.
bNN4 TIL that Elizabeth Taylor had a genetic mutation of the FOXC2 gene, which gave her an extra row of eyelashes.
AXN7 TIL a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office
epynb TIL - squatting in a non-residential building in the UK is not a crime