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TIL of 67 yr-old 4'10" 100 lb Lorenza Marrujo, aka “Lady Ninja” who has a black belt in jiujitsu. When she saw a 5'9" 170 lb man attacking her friend, Lorenza bent his fingers back, hit him twice with her elbow in his sternum, and pinned him to the floor with knees on neck & chest till help arrived.

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bNyE TIL that spiders use fluid movement/hydraulics to “push” their legs forward. They lack the muscles to do so normally and use fluid pressure to do so. This is also why their legs curl up when they die and if their body gets punctured, their body “deflates” and is rendered useless.
QWBM TIL that Bulgaria was the only country to save all of it’s Jewish citizens from deportation to concentration camps
d8XyE TIL: Singer Rod Stewart has eight children from five different women, and there is a 49-year age gap between his youngest and oldest child (ages 6 to 55).
xVm05 TIL Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" was originally never intended to be released as a single. When Hawaiian DJ Pablo Sato downloaded the album from an MP3 site, he played the song on American radio the next day. Within a couple of days, it was the number-one requested song.
Q0Oa TIL in 2010, a school board gave Macbooks to students, secretly spied on them, and punished them later at school.