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TIL that back in the day, small-time gunmakers would repurpose punt guns into single-shot elephant guns for cheap, for ivory hunters that couldn't afford the expensive, purpose-built double rifles

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N7oAE TIL in the 60's Capel Celyn, Wales was flooded to provide drinking water to Liverpool forcing the inhabitants to leave. After the flooding the English MPs had a tea party on location which was quickly destroyed by the furious villagers. This launched a Nationalist movement which continues to grow.
rYkd TIL A psychiatrist convicted of Marijuana possession escaped from prison after cheating on a psychology test that he designed himself so that he was placed in a lower security prison.
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