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TIL the law governing firearms in Ireland used to consider airsoft guns legally equivalent to a 20mm anti-tank rifles, as the law failed to specify a minimum energy for a gun’s projectile.

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Bg1EK TIL the Enchanted Chapel in Seattle, WA, USA has had four family generations of officiants who've married 10,000+ couples since 1964. They've also married couples on mountaintops, roller coasters, airplanes, bathtubs, and in a hot-air balloon.
8amvb TIL that Fritz Haber, the "father of chemical warfare," created the Haber-Bosch process of synthesizing ammonia for fertilizers used in over half of the global population's current food production.
pY8ab TIL : Val Kilmer has lost his voice, quite literally. The only way we may hear speak again is through a computer program
wdKJ TIL a guy cut off the head of his pregnant wife’s lover with a knife in a phonebooth and delivered it to her bedside while she was in the hospital
GDON TIL the mercury everyone is so scared of in vaccines (thimerosal) is actually ethylmercury, while the toxic mercury which can damage the nervous system is methylmercury. The same way that we drink ethylalcohol (ethanol) but methylalcohol (methanol) will cause you to go blind, or just plain kill you.