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TIL there is one double barrel cannon in existence. It was intended to fire simultaneously from side-by-side barrels two balls linked by a chain, intended to scythe down enemy soldiers like standing wheat.

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pY4vZ TIL US states can lower the drinking age but will lose millions of dollars a year in highway repairs if they do, essentially bribing them into keeping it 21.
QxX9 TIL that Frozen’s Elsa was originally written as a villain. It wasn’t until the writers heard the song “Let It Go” that they decided to rewrite everything.
gajA TIL that cats only meow for humans and in the wild they use other forms of communication
xVv65 TIL in China, the one-child policy has wreaked havoc. By encouraging the birth of boys rather than girls, an imbalance of the sexes has emerged. China will now have a surplus of 30 to 40 million men under the age of 19. That’s the equivalent of the entire population of young men in the United States
w6BW TIL Arkham Asylum was named after Arkham, Massachusetts, the fictional town central to many H.P. Lovecraft stories.