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TIL about David Angell. A writer for Fraiser and who co-wrote an episode where a stranger leaves a message for Fraiser saying she’ll arrive on American Flight 11. Angell and his wife were among those who were killed at the WTC on 9/11. They were passengers on American Airlines Flight 11.
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TIL about Jeremy, a snail with its shell coiled to the left instead of the right, which makes it impossible to mate. An entire campaign was brought up in order to find Jeremy a lover and two candidates were found around the globe. Both rejected Jeremy and prefered to mate between themselves.
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TIL about the LeMat revolver, a twin-barreled, Confederate States of America-produced, 9-shot, .42 or .36-caliber revolver. Its secondary barrel could fire a 20-gauge shotgun shell. Its firing hammer had a built-in lever designed to select which barrel would fire when the trigger was pulled.
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TIL of Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842) whose name entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. In 1784 he invented “spherical case” ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. It lent the term shrapnel to to fragmentation in general ever since.
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