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grRB9 TIL that "Walking in Memphis" singer Marc Cohn was shot in the head during a failed carjacking. The bullet missed Cohn's eye and lodged near his skull. Cohn survived and was hospitalized for only 8 hours. Cohn said, "Doctors told me I was the luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long, long time."
m1eav TIL that the R-colored vowel (the “-er” sound in “butter,” as pronounced in North American English) is rare in languages, occurring in less than 1% of them. However, those languages include North American English and Mandarin Chinese, two of the most widely-spoken languages on earth.
DQWVY TIL that in 1982, Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus driver Andrew Aycock, guitarist Randy Rhoads, and makeup artist Rachel Youngblood were killed while riding a small plane Aycock was flying low over the bus in attempt to wake up the band, which he passed twice before clipping a wing and going into a spiral