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Today I learned Samuel Colt threw laughing gas parties to invest in making his firearms. He traveled America calling himself a doctor performing demonstrations with nitrous oxide.

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lorBA TIL Adam Mattocks is the only aviator to bail out of a B-52 cockpit without an ejector seat and survive. The B-52, carrying two 3.8-megaton H-bombs, crashed in North Carolina. Upon reaching an Air Force base to explain his story, Mattocks, an African-American, was arrested for stealing a parachute.
LOjd TIL there is a film adaptation of a former McDonald’s teenage employee who was held against her will, strip searched, sexually assaulted, spanked, and physically humiliated all because of a prank call by a guy claiming he was a cop. Everyone thought it was all legitimate.
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