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Today's Random Fact:

By making use of the energy of the recoil of a fired bullet
to eject the spent cartridge and load the next, Hiram Maxim
in 1884 produced the first fully automatic machine gun.

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Bonus Fact:

Early guns took so long to load and fire that bows and arrows
--in trained hands--were twelve times more efficient.