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TIL one of Richard Ramirez’s (the Night Stalker) early victims survived her attack by putting her hands in front of face to block the gun. The bullet ricocheted off the keys in her hand, saving her life.

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4X5ab TIL there is a time system called Decimal Time (which is not the same as Metric Time) which splits the day into 10 hours of 100 minutes, with each minute being 100 seconds. A decimal minute is about 86 seconds in our current measurement.
gjW8 TIL Soviet scientists tried to create nuclear 7.62 mm bullets for AKM/PKM. They used californium-252 instead of uranium or plutonium. Each bullet had enough power to destroy a tank (100—700 kg of TNT equivalent)
Mo7A TIL that most maps are lying to you about how big Africa really is. It’s so big that it can hold the US, Mexico, China, Western Europe and most of India.
5KZp TIL That Andre Royo (the actor who plays Bubbles in The Wire) was so convincing at playing a drug addict that during on-location filming he was once given a small package of heroin by a local resident, who said to Royo “Man, you need a fix more than I do.”
JLr4 TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.