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TIL The Suffragettes Pursued a Surprisingly Violent Campaign of Bombing and Arson from 1912 to 1914

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16Xe4 TIL in 1939, Singer, the sewing machine company, produced 500 extremely high quality 1911 Pistols as an educational study for the DoD. It was the highest quality production of the entire war effort.
D1yAj TIL there's an ethnicity known as the "Magyarab". They are descendent from Hungarians mercenaries who settled in Sudan and Egypt under the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century.
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