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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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xRX1 TIL Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost be assassinated. After the first pistol failed to be discharged a second pistol was pulled, that one too misfired. The likelihood of both pistols misfiring was 120,000 to 1.
5YYZP TIL that as a part of his celibacy experiments, Mahatma Gandhi used to sleep nude with his young female companions which included his 17 year old grand-niece Mridula Gandhi
b9p9a TIL after the TV series ended, the helicopter from Airwolf was sold and served as an ambulance helicopter in Germany until it crashed in 1992, killing all on board.
wooRY TIL The First “Urinal Target” Was Invented in the early 1970s by Joel Kreiss, a 33-year-old Dentist Who Had the Idea While Potty Training His Son
1YRO TIL: When Four Loko first came out in 2005 it contained wormwood, the psychoactive in absinthe. They removed it after a year to cut costs, and instead focused on higher alcohol content and flavor.