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TIL California repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms after members of the Black Panther Party started carrying guns

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D1LdY TIL when the British electronics retailer Dixons introduced the Matsui brand, they drew protests due to the brand having the same name as Iwane Matsui, the Japanese general responsible for the Nanking Massacre.
0d7RM TIL that the saliva pouring from the aliens mouth in Alien (1979) is KY jelly, and the tendons in its jaws are shredded condoms
V0jQ TIL there’s a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
16A5X TIL that Edward Teller, the physicist who advocated for Oppenheimer to lose his security clearance suggested using nukes to create artifical harbours, fracking oil and preventing hurricanes
VMaop TIL that when "Escape from New York" was filmed in 1980's St Louis's gang zone, Kurt Russell walked to the set at night, wearing full Snake Plissken costume, including the eye patch and the machine gun. He turned a corner and ran into a street gang. They took one look at him and moved aside, scared.