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TIL that Native Americans started the practice of reloading bullet cartridges during the Indian Wars. US military authorities found out and ordered all US soldiers to stomp on their fires cartridges after being fired. Frontiersmen took advantage of this and sold overpriced shells to the natives.

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788p TIL Sean Connery once stated “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman–although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. ”
6EMRw TIL Alexander J. Vilicky, a 19 year old modder, insulted Bethesda and said he could make much better DLC than them with a fraction of the resources. He then made The Falksaar Mod, which included almost 30 hours of new content. Because of this, Bungie had hired him as a developer at their studios.
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loPlN TIL Arizona granted women the right to vote 8 years before the women’s suffrage movement.