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TIL Tom Cruise's name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV

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16yj4 TIL about the Puckle Gun, an early automatic weapon designed to fire round bullets at Christians and square bullets at Muslim Turks. Square bullets were believed to cause more severe wounds than round ones.
LQvo9 TIL that there are designer hotels…
WkNoA TIL about George McJunkin: Born a slave, became a cowboy after the Civil War, and as an amateur archaeologist discovered one of the oldest sites of ancient human civilization in North America
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