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TIL the Colt Walker revolver was the world's most powerful repeating handgun from 1847 until the .357 magnum cartridge was invented in 1934. It was designed to be able to kill an enemy's horse in one shot.

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b90dN TIL: Decades of studies have shown that parenting has the largest effect on a child's grades, not the quality of the school. Affluent families produce better grades regardless of the school due to having more interactions with their parents, resulting in a 30 million average word gap by age 3.
8eAXP TIL Americans are eating out less and less. When Gen X was 18 - 24 years old they ordered from or ate at restaurants 284 times per year, Millennials 244 times per year when they were 18 - 24, and currently Gen Z eats out or orders from restaurants 218 times per year.
PYA9g TIL Zephany Nurse is a South African girl who was kidnapped as a baby. 17 years later, she was reunited with her real family when she coincidentally started going to the same school as her younger sister. The girls were inseparable and had a strong resemblance. A DNA test confirmed their relation.
OolpY TIL in September 1939, at the onset of World War II. The Night Watch was detached from its frame and rolled around a cylinder. The rolled painting was stored for four years in a special safe that was built to protect many works of art in the caves of Maastricht, Netherlands.
BgLKL TIL the first webcam, created in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, was used to monitor a coffee pot in real time so researchers could check if there was fresh coffee without leaving their desks.