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TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns

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kOLm TIL the deepest hole ever drilled reached 7.6 miles (12.3 km) before drilling was stopped because the temperature at that depth became too high at 356°F (180°C)
PGOg TIL that prior to the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the US military dropped 5 million leaflets warning citizens to evacuate major Japanese cities
VMmZD TIL that France still has a territory in the Canadian Maritimes.
9w7Jm TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes, who believed he was the rightful holder of the Seigneur's title, attempted to single handedly invade the Isle of Sark
xVaxD TIL the Black Plague was so deadly it killed 50% of Europe's population in the 14th century & reduced world population by up to 200 million