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TIL early automatic weapons were invented with humanitarian intentions: their creator believed faster-firing guns would save lives by shrinking armies.

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m1VZv TIL in 1991 Sacramento Kings rookie Lionel Simmons missed 2 games due to developing tendinitis in his right wrist and forearm due to playing too much Nintendo Game Boy
rRNoy TIL To understand a pun, your brain' right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of it
mxWPy TIL of the Bodo League Massacre. A genocide personally witnessed by the American Armed Forces and carried out by the South Korean Military. Around 200,000 people ended up dead. The British Armed Forces were able to successfully save many of the citizens that had been 'marked for death'.
VZRG TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen