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TIL American civilians own 46% of the world's guns, three times as many as all the world's militaries combined.

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d8OMZ TIL Roman roads were named after the censor that constructed or reconstructed them. Each time a road had been reworked, e.g. (re/paved or rerouted) it will be renamed. If the road was older than the censor or of unknown origin, it took the name of its destination or the region that it mainly passed.
yQ8lw TIL In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan got four of its members elected to Anaheim, California's five-member board of trustees, giving them control of city government. When the Klan's plan was exposed, their representatives were successfully recalled in a special election the following year.
b9AN4 TIL Men are happiest when they are "serial monogamists" - research shows while marriage to a first love is the healthiest option for a woman's mental well-being, men are better off when they have a series of serious relationships which end before marriage.
R7XYl TIL The stinging cells of Jellyfish are only around 2 micrometers in size. But can deploy in 0.7 microseconds and generate 7 GPa of penetration at a velocity of 15 m/s. Enough to pierce the shell of a crustacean.
oB9jR TIL Alcatraz was one of the only federal prisons at the time that allowed hot showers to deter prisoners from acclimating to cold water and escaping through the San Francisco Bay.