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TIL The United States is the only nation where guns outnumber people. 120 guns per 100 people.

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oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
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