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TIL There is a pistol that fires the same round used in the Barrett .50Cal BMG Sniper Rifle used by special forces snipers, and it looks like something from Star Wars! (video in comments)

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YpV6v TIL that dragonfly-like Meganeuropsis permiana which flew around 300 million years ago was 1.5 feet long with a wingspan of 2.5 feet. The biggest insect that has ever existed. If we cloned one today, it would probably suffocate because it needed the 30% Oxygen atmosphere present then (20% now).
XEm0D TIL Washington state will be the first state to allow human composting as a form of burial on May 1, 2020.
xEWD TIL Uranus and Neptune switched places 4 billion years ago.
9Y6D7 TIL that William Burke, who killed with his partner 16 persons and sold their bodies for use as specimens in anatomy classes of Edinburgh Medical School, was hanged and his corpse was publicly dissected and preserved in the anatomical museum of the same school.
b6NN TIL that Leo Fender , the inventer of Fender Guitars never knew how to play the guitar