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TIL Lil’ Wayne’s original stage name was Shrimp Daddy.

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M7B8W TIL in WW1, ten Vickers machine guns fired over one million rounds in a 12-hour period to provide sustained covering fire. To cool the guns, they used all the water in the neighbourhood, including drinking water and the contents of latrine buckets.
R7kAj TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men
69Mam TIL about the National Eagle Repository - a US government site that distributes eagle feathers and other parts to Native Americans for ceremonies.
OP17 TIL That according to the International Society for Human Rights, a secular observatory, 80 percent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed at Christians. Statistically speaking, that makes Christians by far the most persecuted religious body on the planet.
pV9A TIL the town of Muff, Ireland has a diving club