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TIL Mouse's shotguns in The Matrix were working models that fired 900 rounds per minute. It used a unique cam-driven design invented by movies armorer, John Bowring.

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7ryy7 TIL Somali Museum of Minnesota may now be the only museum in the world dedicated to preserving Somali culture and traditions. Boqor Burhaan, a regional king from Puntland, Somalia, held a reception at the Somali Museum as part of a visit to the Somali community in Minnesota
PZke TIL that Lolita, the killer whale, has been kept in Miami Seaquarium since 1970. The orca is 20 ft long, and her tank measures 60 by 80 ft by 20 ft deep. Her only company for 10 years was Hugo, who died after a brain aneurysm caused by repeatedly banging his head on the tank windows.
78DVb TIL how horrific the 1918 global flu pandemic was, lasting just 15 months but killing 50 to 100 million people worldwide. Many would die within hours. Horrible symptoms, not just aches & cyanosis but also a foamy blood coughed up from the lungs, & bleeding from the nose, ears & even eyes.
5VGQ8 TIL that scientists have created a new form of ice called "superionic ice" that exists as both solid and liquid at the same time
JZ98 TIL that in 1796, some of the first “attack ads” in US election history were published and included a warning that Thomas Jefferson would emancipate all slaves if elected