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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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VZoZ TIL during WW2 a Soviet Airforce lieutenant who intentionally did not open his parachute survived a fall from the plane of approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet)
5B68 TIL after Kanye West’s mother had died of heart disease while suffering “multiple post-operative factors” after plastic surgery, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the “Donda West Law,” making it mandatory for patients to provide medical clearance for elective cosmetic surgery.
QN7QX TIL Gotye’s widely popular song “Somebody That I Used To Know” had its main riff sampled from an instrumental track by Luiz Bonfa
xVMZw TIL from 1897-1907 the US Department of Labor commissioned several reports on the condition of Blacks in America, culminating in a damning report by W.E.B. Du Bois on the exploitation of Blacks in Alabama. Rather than publish the report, the DOL destroyed all copies and halted the studies.
yQJdw TIL of the Blue People of Kentucky, carriers of a recessive genetic trait that that gives the sufferers blue skin tone. The the last known descendant was born in 1975.