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TIL that America has the most guns per capita in the world at 89 guns per 100 people

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a8Gxy TIL the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light is called Eigengrau or dark light or brain gray.
Zw04 TIL “The number you have dialed is not in service” was recorded by singer and voice actor, Jane Barbe, and heard by 300 million people per week
WL68 TIL Teddy Roosevelt was involved in a bar fight, which began after a man bullied him for wearing glasses. Teddy, being an experienced boxer, knocked the man out cold after one punch.
mxG1p TIL in 1965. 6 boys from a catholic school were shipwrecked on a deserted island named 'Ata after a storm took their stolen boat out to sea for 8 days. They found the ruins of Kolomaile, a 19th century village in a volcanic crater, surviving off feral chickens, wild taro and banana for 15 months,
P1Y9V TIL modern mathematical notation for fractions that seperates the numerators and denominators with bars were invented by the 12th century Moroccan mathematican Abu bakr Al hassar