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TIL Britain used tommy guns in ww2

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7v0O TIL the deepest mine in the world, Mponeng in S. Africa, has rock faces 140-degrees due to proximity to Earth’s core, and is inhabited by “ghost minders” – pale criminals armed with AKs and beer bottle grenades who reside in the shafts for months at a time to steal gold.
yaKa TIL that dolphins know each other by name just like humans, except dolphin infants choose their own name while very young.
JBRl TIL John McCain put forward a bill (later overturned by Citizen’s United) that planned to take money out of politics
bp5Z TIL The uniforms worn by the Alliance on Firefly are leftover costumes from Starship Troopers.
j6eVa TIL there almost were programmable, steam-driven computers in the 1840s