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TIL: The ZM-87 is one of only a few laser weapons ever produced but stopped production a result of the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons ban.

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a866b TIL Freddie Mercury’s introductory scatting vocal on "Under Pressure" was improvised during an experiment suggested by David Bowie, as Brian May recalls it: "David said, 'Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.'"
XExyE TIL at US Supreme Court, the most junior associate justice is charged with menial tasks, such as answering the door of conference room, serving beverages and transmitting orders of the court to the clerk.
xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.
78MoX TIL That the most all callers in to the namesake show on Frasier (Original) were all well-known uncredited stars.
wdpP TIL: Tupac Shakur auditioned to be Mace Windu in ‘Star Wars’