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TIL that Washington DC’s violent crime rates dramatically rose after banning handguns

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1a9Er TIL that the film Eurotrip was filmed entirely in Prague, Czech Republic. (Scenes in the US were at the International School of Prague; the Paris railway station was actually Prague railway station; Vatican City was actually Prague's National Museum)
OG9Oa TIL the concorde used fuel pumps and multiple fuel tanks to move its fuel around mid-flight to trim its center-of-mass to help maintain stability as it passed supersonic speeds.
x6e7B TIL that pink "peppercorns" are actually the berries of a plant in the cashew family, and can be dangerous to people with tree nut allergies.
loL51 TIL that a craft equipped with warp drive would move by distorting space.
v1xw7 TIL Henry Cavill (The Witcher, Superman) failed his James Bond screentest back in 2005. The role would be won by Daniel Craig.