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

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Zjjp TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit orange, not the other way around.
rZbW TIL anyone with a grandparent born in Ireland is entitled to claim Irish citizenship, and the numbers entitled to that status in Britain may exceed the entire population of Ireland.
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