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6EoK7 TIL: There is a left wing Pro 2A organization in the US called the Socialist Rifle Association
YkwG TIL Robert Taylor Couldn’t get a patent on his idea for liquid soap, so he purchased every single plastic pump in the USA so other companies couldn’t manufacture their own liquid soap.
oagY TIL the United States is on pace to build a 1-megawatt laser weapon capable of melting 20 feet of steel per second.
16GVX TIL that there is a desert in Poland called the Błędów Desert (meaning the "mistake desert"). It is Central Europe's largest accumulation of loose sand and during WWII, the German military used to train there in preparation for the deserts of North Africa.
loyr5 TIL that when Leonid Brezhnev was the head of government of the Soviet Union, he awarded himself the Hero of the Soviet Union for his birthday in 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981