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TIL guns can be fired in space. Gunpowder contains its own oxidizer, which allows guns to work even in the vacuum of space.

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9BE7 TIL The Iron Maiden, a medieval torture device, never actually existed for that purpose. It was created by a museum curator when he added spikes to a female form sarcophagus.
mgKY TIL Adam Savage was once called by the FBI bomb squad because he left a voicemail on a wrong number about making a “thermal detonator”
R5db6 TIL Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in bringing Macaroni And Cheese to the United States after encountering it in Paris. The dish was prepared by James Hemings, a classically trained French chef enslaved by Jefferson.
N7AdP TIL about Kenny brack, a former Indy racing car driving who got into a crash & experiencing a declaration of 214g, holding the record for surving the highest G force experienced by a human. It also made his body 214 times Heavier for a fraction of second, weighing 15 tonnes.
xVam1 TIL that George Washington illegally rotated his enslaved personal chef, Hercules, between the Capitol and Mount Vernon to avoid laws that would free him. Hercules eventually escaped to freedom.