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TIL that Pete Brownell, of Brownell firearms, is also CEO of the NRA.

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VkxB TIL that Steven Spielberg’s top choice for Eddie Valiant in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ was Bill Murray but they were unable to contact him since he has no agent. When Murray later read about this he screamed at the top of his lungs as he would have definitely accepted the part.
v1BXK TIL Colombia was the only Latin American country to send soldiers to aide The United States in the Korean War. They sent 5,100 men in what was known as the “1st Colombian Battalion”. They were rewarded for their “exemplary performance” during Operation Nomad and Operation Thunderbolt.
v1y1B TIL about Edward Bernays: Freud's nephew, a father of modern advertising, who effectively overthrew the Guatemalan Govt. on behalf of United Fruit
J1Vdj TIL a 2002 U.S. war game, with Iran as the enemy, ended with the entire U.S. fleet lost in 1 day. The game was then restarted with rigged rules to ensure America won.
wogM8 TIL that medical students dissected the donated body of a 78-year-old man only to discover that he had three penises. The two extra penises were small, nonfunctional, and completely concealed within his scrotum, so it’s possible he lived his entire life without knowing his anatomy was different.