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TIL shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don’t have to account for gravity

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VM80Q TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane
D1xJD TIL that since 2015, the soundwave of 'O Canada' sung by fans at a bar has been stitched on to every Canadian National Soccer Jersey
oRBAY TIL that King Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, ordered the execution of Anabaptists - who believed in a second adult baptism - by what he referred to as a 'Third Baptism': Drowning!
W7QbY TIL the first successful insanity plea in the US was in 1859 by congressman and future Civil War general Daniel Sickles for the murder of his wife’s lover, US District Attorney Phillip Key (the son of Francis Scott Key).
DlMJ TIL: That an American dentist drilled “Remember Pearl Harbour” on Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s dentures.