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TIL Light guns (like the one used in the NES “Duck Hunt” game) were invented and used in arcade games since the 1930s.

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JYVK4 TIL of the Parsley massacre when Domincan forces killed as many as 35,000 Haitians. Few bullets were used – instead, Haitians were bludgeoned and bayonetted, then herded into the sea, where sharks finished what the soliders had began.
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