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TIL the first handheld rail gun was made in 2015

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xvgg TIL that American car seats are illegal to use in most of the rest of the world due to the addition of the chest clip
xV7EB Til indigenous people of mexico have only regained their pre-colonial population of 25 million this century
MeJkW TIL that John Wayne's character in the 1956 classic movie The Searchers, repeated use of the phrase "That'll be the day" so impressed Buddy Holly and friends they used it as the title for their now standard rock song That'll be the day.
GAnv5 TIL The internet was born in 1969. Which happens to be the last year that the Beatles performed in public.
P1Xaw TIL in 2017 North Korea arrested US tourist Otto Warmbier for stealing a poster. When he was released from prison to US delegates, he was in a vegetative state and died soon. The US delegates were handing a bill for $2 million for his "medical treatment".