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TIL Britain used tommy guns in ww2

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j6pNn TIL San Francisco’s Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary was the only prison to offer hot-water showers at the time
5Vo4R TIL that Manute Bol killed a lion as a young herdsman in Sudan
D1yor TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast to play the creature in Predator (1987)
0wX7L TIL of the “next-in-line” effect—a phenomenon that causes people to regularly forget the names of the people they meet for the first time because they’re too focused on worrying about what they’ll say next to that person.
5VMWk TIL Ferdinand Verbiest created the first vehicle which moved under its own power in 1672 as an amusement for the Chinese Emperor Kangxi. The steam vehicle was 2 ft in length and built like a five-wheeled cart-like trolley