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TIL: The Barrett Model M82 is the official rifle of the State of Tennessee

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PPDn TIL the saying ‘Diamonds are Forever’ is pure marketing: after the South African diamond rush, the value of the diamond should have plummeted if not for the Oppenheimer family managing to convince the world that diamonds have always been associated with love.
mx7PR TIL while fighting in WWII, Max Spencer Adler was shot out of the sky and imprisoned by the Nazi’s. After surviving and returning home, he would go on to create the store we now know as Spencer’s (Gifts).
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Bn7e TIL the US Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that tomatoes are a vegetable.