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TIL For a gun to work the bullets need to be slightly bigger than the barrel they are fired from

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R5aa9 TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted.
DlBD TIL there’s something called Tetris Syndrome, which happens when you play a game too long and you start to dream and hallucinate about it in your peripheral vision.
oakE TIL that US election day is always held on a Tuesday because in 1845 farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Farmers would leave Monday, vote on Tuesday and be back in time for market day, which was on Wednesday.
5eOQ TIL that the Inuit people fear people who are unhappy. They believe that unhappy people are dangerous.
nW0od TIL a big part of the reason American cars are so large is because american fuel efficiency standards tie required fuel efficiency to car size