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TIL California repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms after members of the Black Panther Party started carrying guns

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wLlj8 TIL while the iPad was released after the iPhone, its development actually began before the iPhone's.
BgVBd TIL In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt and Eric Bana did not use stunt doubles for their epic duel. They made a gentleman's agreement to pay for every accidental hit. $50 for each light hit, $100 for each hard blow. By the end of the scene, Bana didn't owe Pitt anything. Pitt ended up paying Bana $750.
M7JQ8 TIL that shortly after WW1 started, Pope Pius X "The Pontiff Supreme " and the Black Pope died within hours of each other. The Black Pope was Francis Xavier Wernz General of the Jesuits. The Black Pope got its name from robes that the Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) members wear
0d65M TIL, in 2000, the April issue of the Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article titled 'How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Marks on Her Body' as an April Fool's joke. It backfired, and women's organizations in Romania spoke up in protest.
W7QRN TIL scientists in a restricted zone, closed off to the public, discovered a plant grown out of the solidified lava. It was a tomato plant. Further research concluded it was from a tomato seed grown from the defecation of a scientist