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TIL the first handheld rail gun was made in 2015

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X9ZX TIL that in 1972 John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a bank in Brooklyn after being inspired by Al Pacino’s performance in ‘The Godfather’, only to be portrayed by Al Pacino himself in 1975’s 'Dog Day Afternoon’
m18bE TIL Nickelback originally started out as cover band named 'Village Idiot'
LkBvQ TIL a Norman army of 500 men abandoned their encampment due to being "tormented by tarantula spiders"
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.
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