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

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yQ61l TIL the bronze bull (or brazen bull) was a torture/execution bull-shaped device. The condemned were locked inside, fire set under, heating metal until they're roasted to death. An acoustic apparatus converted screams into the sound of a bull.
vxy4 TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.
NYJN TIL in 2007 hundreds of people gathered at the coordinate from xkcd episode 240 - story of a man who met a girl in dream that ended with him saying ‘wanting something doesn’t make it real’. When the time was up author Randall Munroe appeared and said “Maybe wanting something does make it real.”
d8BOB TIL the three-toed skink is a “bimodally reproductive” species that can lay eggs or give live birth, and is the first known vertebrate to perform both in a single litter.
8n1P TIL - Rick James (“Superfreak”) was in a band with Neil Young, Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield) and Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) before having to serve a year in prison because he was actually AWOL from the navy