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TIL California repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms after members of the Black Panther Party started carrying guns

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woGvM TIL that Audrey Hepburn declined the offer from Otto Frank to play his daughter, Anne, in the 1959 film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Audrey declined, because she did not want to relive her wartime experiences in German occupied Holland.
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kOJ57 TIL that "mise-en-place" is a French cullinary term, which means "putting in place". It signifies that you should get all the necessary ingredients and tools ready before you start cooking.
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d8DoZ TIL that in 1871 Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.