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TIL that while the US has the most civilian guns per capita by far, it’s only 28th in gun homicide rate, at just 3 per 100,000 people.

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R5lL1 TIL that in 1947 Canada raised the price of chocolate bars from 5¢ to 8¢ without much notice. Children protested against this 62.5% increase throughout the country, and approximately 200 stormed the legislature building of British Columbia.
wL8Ro Today I learned that the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" fought against the Nazis, the Soviets and the Polish Home Army, making it the only organization to fight the Axis, Comintern and Western Allies
xVRZk TIL about Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), an African American inventor who invented an oil-dripping cup for trains. Other inventors tried to copy McCoy's oil-dripping cup, but none of the other cups worked as well as his, so customers started asking for "The Real McCoy."
QRZL TIL Laron Syndrome, a type of dwarfism, makes its carriers immune to diabetes and cancer.
8ekmZ TIL a man named James Harrison had rare antigens for Rhesus disease. He donated plasma every week for 60 years and saved an estimated 2.4 million babies.