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TIL U.S. high schools used to have gun clubs. There was even a riflery championship where students competed on a national level.

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N7ArN TIL that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 23 sequels to Tarzan of the Apes. The ape-man discovers he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, fights alongside Germans in WWI, finds a colony of Atlantis and the City of Gold, befriends a tribe of dog-sized humans, and has other bizarre adventures.
vxaD TIL Over 77,000 people in Rwanda may get out of poverty thanks to a simple solar program
oBrYK TIL that it takes 95% less energy to recycle a ton of aluminum cans than to produce them new, 1 recycled ton of aluminum is equivalent to saving 40 barrels of oil
4X8ow TIL that in 1964 the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. blackmail tapes and an anonymously written letter that attempted to convince him to commit suicide
Wkm9d TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.