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Daily Trivia

What is the legacy of Mikhail Kalashnikov?

on May 29, 2025

he AK-47 (shortened from Russian Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947) is a gas-operated assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, and produced by Russian manufacturer Izhevsk Mechanical Works and used in many Eastern bloc nations during the Cold War. It was adopted and standardized in 1947

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Who named our space program Apollo?

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Daily Trivia / May 28, 2025

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