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TIL Beretta is the oldest firearms manufacturer in the world - having been established in 1526 in Brescia, Italy.

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691rW TIL Olivia de Havilland, born in Japan in 1916, won Best Actress 2x; starred in the highest-grossing film ever (adjusted); legendarily sued Warner Bros and won; and died in Paris in 2020 at 104. She and her sister, Joan Fontaine- who hated each other- are the only siblings to win lead acting Oscars.
B88K TIL that in 2013 a Manhattan dad was deemed “wholly incapable” of parenting his 4-year-old son because he refused to take him to McDonald’s.
VBRRG TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.
O4EX TIL that Alan Shepard, the first American in space, wet his spacesuit before getting there—which opened up a whole new research field—space urination
OoE9a TIL there is a proposed punctuation mark for irony and sarcasm, but due to lack of adoption it remains unused