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

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AVan TIL Ultimate sci-fi fan and literary agent Forest J Ackerman kept every story ever submitted to him. He once showed up at a Stephen King book signing with a manuscript King had written when he was 11.
RZXw TIL the ancient Greeks used the electrogenic properties of electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations.
awyBA TIL that suicidal ideation is associated with inflammation in the brain and/or body
OlWX TIL that we want to “squeeze cute things to death” because we are too overcome with positive emotion and unable to process it such that we become aggressive.
Yp4EW TIL of Sybil Ludington, who rode double the length of Paul Revere at only 16 years old to alert Americans that the British were coming. She was personally thanked by George Washington for her service