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TIL that original crosshairs in older firearms used ‘real’ hair or spiderweb

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OoVMe TIL that Mary Shelley wrote a novella about a father's incestuous love to his daughter, and Mary gave it to her father to review, who called it "disgusting and detestable".
Vlwp TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times
QNy6E TIL that the average person generates 0.6-1.8L of gas per day and a healthy person farts about 12-25 times per day.
8AOZ TIL that on Dec. 6, 1989, an anti-feminist shot 14 people to death because they were women studying engineering
R7dWw TIL someone born in Shenzhen in 1980 would've started school in a tiny town about the size of Ithaca, NY or Port Huron, MI (30,000 population) and would now be living in the 24th largest city in the world, with more people than Paris (12 million+ population).