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TIL that the first Taser model used gunpowder as a propellant so it was classified as a firearm.

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5eVp TIL That Amish men shave their mustache due to its long association with military tradition.
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V6V4 TIL that mathematician, George Price, proved the kindness doesn’t exist. However, he hated his equation so much he set out to prove it wrong by converting to Christianity, giving away all his belongings, and letting homeless sleep in his house. He failed and slashed his throat with scissors in 1975.
XO16 TIL that when Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1. Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage.
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