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TIL the firearms manufacturer, Beretta, will be 500 years old next year!

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AN9Xn TIL During World War II, Nazi Germany planned to cripple the U.S. war effort by attacking the Pennsylvania Railroad's four-track mainline at Horseshoe Curve. The agents came over by U-Boat, but were stopped by the FBI. Had it succeeded, U.S. supply lines to Europe could have been badly disrupted.
grKND TIL that even if King Charles III had an older sister, he still would have been first in line to the throne; male-preference primogeniture wasn't changed to absolute primogeniture until the 2011 Perth Agreement.
a8rWM TIL: The first and last fatalities of building the Hoover Dam were a father and his son. They died on the same day, 14 years apart.
QNMeX TIL that the ancient Romans did not simply have a god of doors, but a specific goddess of door hinges, a god for dual doors, and a third one for the threshold
OVma TIL the Jamaica’s police force is among the deadliest in the world