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TIL Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

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mxVGM TIL: Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
AD1Pa TIL A cockroach will fart about every 15 minutes.
MM9m TIL that Morgan Freeman wears earrings so that if he dies in a strange place they can pay for his coffin.
v15bR TIL America's largest Confederate monument is Stone Mountain, Georgia. It's over 800 ft tall and 1.5 miles wide, draws 4 million visitors a year, and has a relief covering one face of the mountain that depicts three leaders of the Confederacy – Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
W776B TIL about Abd al-Rahman. A Umayyad prince who narrowly escaped the killing of his family by the Abassid and wandered across Egypt and North Africa in exile for years before reaching Iberia and starting a kingdom that lasted for three centuries there where Muslim, Jews and Christians lived together.