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7aRX TIL the US Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice reported in 2004 that the effects of renewing the 1994 assault weapon ban might be “too small for reliable measurement” because “[assault weapons] were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban”.
d8D8 TIL hemophilia is prominent in European royalty, because royal families engaged in copious amounts of incest, spreading the hemophilia gene
wLoR7 TIL that plans for the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II have been extensively prepared by most British government and media organizations since the 1960s. The codename is Operation London Bridge.
69LAW TIL that Winston Churchill, was directly responsible for creating Bengal famine of 1943 which ultimately killed about 3 Million Indian Bengalis.
69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.