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TIL Lawyer, Salesperson and Police Officer are Among the Top 10 Jobs that Attract Psychopaths

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16yj4 TIL about the Puckle Gun, an early automatic weapon designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at Muslim Turks. Square bullets were believed to cause more severe wounds than round ones.
ep0an TIL: Concrete is the second-most-used substance on earth after water.
R557w TIL almost all bananas we eat today are clones of each other
R7y74 TIL The Hudson Bay Company sold land comprising about a quarter of the continent to Canada in 1869 for $1.5 million. The inhabiting indigenous peoples were handed over to Canada like "a flock of sheep".
KY914 TIL: Rock band Limp Bizkit played on the World Trade Center and received a Thank You letter from the WTC on Sept 10, 2001.