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TIL that some Syrian rebels are using the Sturmgwehr 44, an assault rifle produced in Nazi Germany in late WW2 and which can be worth up to $30'000 in the US

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b6rb9 TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.
E1KOP TIL in 1974, there was a hilarious Turkish ripoff of Star Trek
WN9Y TIL: The phrase “The luck of the Irish” is actually meant to be offensive. It’s as if to say: “only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed”
J1lgB TIL that the actor who played the “master” and the actress who played his wife in ‘Hocus Pocus’ were siblings in real life
v14yj TIL that due to poaching, female African elephants are evolving tuskless; about 1/3 of females in a Mozambique Nat'l Park were born tuskless with males evolving smaller tusks. They use tusks to compete for mating, dig for water and topple trees for food which in turn creates habitats and water holes