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TIL the Ku Klux Klan lobbied for the first Gun Control Laws in the United States.

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9YBgD TIL that in 1420 the winter was so cold wolves came into Paris to search for food, eating humans.
BreZd TIL that the only difference between a caribou and a reindeer is that caribou are wild and reindeer are domesticated.
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