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TIL that the H.R.152 - Hearing Protection Act is actually about gun silencers and removes silencers from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act.

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epN1k TIL that South Africa used to issue permits for Boer farmers to hunt the San people (bushmen), the last permit was issued in 1936
P1MDV TIL B.B King named his guitars “Lucille” after rescuing one of his early Gibson guitars from a fire started by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille
ANgkn TIL Darwin suffered a curious denial about his mother’s death, once writing in a condolence letter “never in my life having lost one near relation” and during a Scrabble-like game, when another player added ‘M’ to ‘OTHER’, he stared long at the board then cried: ‘There's no such word as M-OTHER!’.
kYdE TIL, 50 years ago the US sent half a billion inch-long copper needles in space. They’re still floating around the earth.
oRYEE TIL that in ancient Rome, blacks were not discriminated against because of their skin color or physical features. They were not barred from any profession, and there was no stigma against interracial relationships. Classical writers did not attribute social status or degree of humanity to skin color