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TIL The first repeating hand held firearms were made as early as the 1600’s and a number of them were even issued to elite Danish soldiers.

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kOAw4 TIL on 1 May 1950 Mosinee, WI staged a communist take over where the mayor was dragged from his bed and "surrendered". The excitement caused him to have a heart attack, killing him 5 days later. The local minister also died after showing how he would hide a Bible from communists in a church organ.
65Ym TIL that over 60% of the top 1000 most popular videos on YouTube are blocked in Germany.
vjnD TIL for those of you with the fairly standard English surname “Smith”, your Italian equivalent surname is “Ferrari”. They both mean blacksmith.
RKM1 TIL Hermann Goering banned vivisection and announced an end to the “unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments” and said that those who “still think they can continue to treat animals as inanimate property” will be sent to concentration camps.
l7RmN TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.