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TIL that in WWI trench guns were given to US soldiers skilled in trap shooting so they could shoot incoming grenades out of the air

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WkvXA TIL a Christian saint offered himself as a human sacrifice and was buried alive. He was later dug up and found to be still alive, but he uttered such words describing what of the afterlife he had seen and how it involved no heaven or hell, that he was ordered to be covered up again.
GNPj TIL Morgan Freeman was on a children’s show in the ‘70’s.
JYnV TIL women in Texas must view an ultrasound, listen to the heartbeat, and be described the organs before being allowed to get an abortion.
YBNr TIL that a man once escaped a police interrogation room by putting a coat over his handcuffs and walking out the door. He later mailed back the cuffs.
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