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TIL There is no federal law banning civilians from owning and using flamethrowers

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neXW7 TIL about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "the Godmother of Rock and Roll". Tharpe was a pioneer in her guitar technique; among the first popular recording artists to use heavy distortion on her electric guitar and her technique had a profound influence on Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards
Mb10 TIL “Eating carrots will improve your vision” is actually based in wartime propaganda designed to explain why pilots were able to fly so well at night without revealing the new invention of radar technology to the enemy.
loZA5 TIL In WW2 the Japanese Navy collected blue "sea fireflies" (bioluminescent crustaceans) allowing sailors to read at night and not be seen
wev7 TIL the average person from Uganda is only 15 years old.
jN0Yp TIL this man died after being trapped behind a grocery store cooler. His body wasn’t discovered for 10 years.