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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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epOob TIL that Nicolas Cage bought a haunted mansion in New Orleans called the LaLaurie Mansion. This place has a super creepy history with torture and murder from the 1800s. Cage got it in 2007, but then it got foreclosed just two years later.
Lwj0 TIL the Roman Emperor Caracalla slaughtered 20,000 Egyptians because they made a play mocking him
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9gXD TIL that the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the legislation to form the Secret Service was on his desk.
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