Hansen's Disease is more widely known as Leprosy.
Today's Question:
True or False: pistols do not have rifling in its barrel and that is why it is called a pistol.
(Spoiler alert)
I happen to know this is nonsense. My Glock .45 ACP has octagonal rifling. I believe "pistol" originally referred to the barrel and chamber being one, not as the case is with a revolver--despite the fact that all handguns are often referred to that way.
(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, February 26, 2012; http://smj.sma.org.sg/4907/4907ms1.pdf; http://www.documentingreality.com)
Compiled by Otto Ladensackwith Patricia Ladensack
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