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TIL that the NRA was originally founded to promote rifle accuracy after the poor marksmanship during the civil war

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GYVmG TIL of Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese professional Mountaineer and former Ghurka. He's currently attempting to summit the 14 tallest peaks in the world in 7 months. The previous record is just under 8 years. Only 1 month in, he's already reached the summits 6 of the peaks, including Everest.
oBrW8 TIL Shoplifters were using self service checkouts to scan expensive fruit and veg as carrots at a major UK supermarket chain. They were only discovered when the supermarket noticed they had sold more carrots than they’d ever had in stock.
oBx4r TIL McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
78G1Z TIL that the French-controlled Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean was named so to pay homage to the meeting of the fédérés of Marseilles and the Paris National Guards. The word réunion in French means meeting rather than reunion.
b6MP0 TIL the Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" included George Harrison on guitar, Carol King on electric piano, Ronnie Specter and Darleen Love on backing vocals and a supergroup of session musicians who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Earth Wind and Fire, Blues Brothers and others.