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TIL One of the first victims of the Nazis was Dora Ritcher, a transwoman who was the first to through male to female gender reassignment surgery

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XENA6 Today I learned that the handkerchief on a stick (that is seen in movies carried by hobos to carry their stuff) is called a bindle.
9wN4r TIL The Nagant M1895 is one of the few revolvers that can successfully use a silencer. This is possible because the ammunition's casing extends over the projectile and the cylinder slides forward when cocked. When fired these elements create a gas seal that prevents gas from venting out the sides.
ADWnd TIL Left-handed people's brains are so different from right-handed that they are often excluded from many psychological research studies
jeNQ TIL that if you disregard the floating timeline in The Simpsons, Mr Burns is 120 years old being born in 1892
8e61X TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections