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TIL that AK-47 stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova, named after Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.

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GmdG TIL the reason that the U.S. Naval Academy has a goat for a mascot is because goats used to be common on ships as a source of dairy products. Goats were smaller and safer than cows at sea - plus they can swim.
p8Gkp TIL that on this day, April 13th, a Friday in 2029, an asteroid more than 1,000ft wide will pass by Earth closer than the moon and will easily be observed with the naked eye.
BY0K TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison
5Qr8 TIL: Terry Fox, a 21 year old one-legged cancer patient, ran 3,339miles across Canada in 143 days before dying. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and was the youngest person ever named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
5Yl0r TIL in 2016, a Spanish train conductor requested the company he worked for to send someone to relieve him at the end of his shift. When the company failed to do so, the conductor had the train stop in a village and simply went home, leaving 109 passengers stranded.