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TIL M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.

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WV98 TIL, During the 1970’s the Russian space agency had a orbiting station which was armed with a 30mm cannon for ‘self defence’ and was test fired during it’s last mission.
x0VD TIL: 1973 when Nolan Ryan was pitching a no hitter, the 27th batter Detroit Tigers Norm Cash walked up to the plate with a table leg.
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.
X0B0R TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case was unsolved by authorities for 8 years until in 2006 she knocked on someone’s door and said “I am Natascha Kampusch.” She had just escaped the cellar she was being abused in by a local technician.
awpBZ TIL Seagulls can drink salt water, as well as fresh water, as they possess exocrine glands located in supraorbital grooves of the skull by which salt can be excreted through the nostrils to assist the kidneys in maintaining electrolyte balance