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TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, regretted its deadly legacy and feared he was responsible for millions of deaths.

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5Vx0D TIL that humans have been sewing even before the Homo Sapiens!
b9vyj TIL Emily Rosa became the youngest person to publish in a medical journal (at 11 years old) when her school science project was published. It demonstrated that Reiki (a type of alternative medicine) practitioners could not detect the alleged "life force" under experimental conditions.
gB7A TIL that Ancient Greek and Roman Statues were actually brightly coloured, not white
x6LjB TIL Bobby Farrell from Boney M died on the same date and same city as Grigori Rasputin, subject of one of the band's biggest hits
R5mo8 TIL In the American civil war Two percent of the American population perished in the line of duty, the equivalent of six million people dying in the ranks today. 750,000 lives lost