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TIL there’s a real, working turret that fires 1,000,000 rounds per minute (or 16,666 bullets per second; a bullet every 0,002 seconds)

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6DYQ TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) didn’t have life insurance, so they autographed hundreds of items for their families to sell in the event that they died
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9YJb7 TIL of the only man in recorded history to be diagnosed a dwarf AND a giant. At age 18 he was 4 ft, and later in life due to a pituitary tumor he grew to be 7ft tall.
D1yYv TIL the US Army Signal Corp(USASC) successfully bounced radar signals off the moon in 1946, paving the way for future space communication
LQB4Z TIL Gibraltar forgot it was a city for 180 years. In 2022 it applied to gain city status, lost the bid, but became a city anyway after reaeachers discovered Queen Victoria had granted it that status 180 years ago.