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TIL Mike Rowe was an opera singer. “I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls”

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7aRX TIL the US Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice reported in 2004 that the effects of renewing the 1994 assault weapon ban might be “too small for reliable measurement” because “[assault weapons] were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban”.
R5Lvj TIL in 1940 a group of four chiefs officially forswore use of the swastika - an ancient symbol of friendship in many Native American cultures - and ceremonially burned a pile of textiles bearing the symbol as an act of repugnance against the Nazis.
Yp6jW TIL The Internet was not created by Boomers, it was created in the 1960s by a professor named Leonard Kleinrock who was born in the middle of the Great Depression in 1934.
vkV8 TIL that starting in 1910, a series of books were published featuring a fictional boy-inventor by the name of Tom Swift. One of these books was titled “Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.” Many years later, this led to the naming of the TASER that police now carry: “Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle”
OaGX TIL there is a four year old hippo and a 130 year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve that are best friends. The sleep and play together