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TIL A Superman landmine awareness campaign backfired when children ran into a minefield hoping to get rescued by Superman

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4kMrX 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.
oBkdA TIL that a man set a record for the most expensive free drink at Starbucks ever when he used a coupon to order a "mega" latte with 101 shots of espresso and 17 pumps of vanilla syrup. His drink contained nearly 7500 mg of caffeine and rang up to $83.75.
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