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TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name.

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ayPZ TIL there was a Women’s Strike of 1975 in Iceland. 90% of women stopped working, cooking, and caring for children, and the entire country ground to a halt.
nePar TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb from a plane on a South Carolina family's backyard in 1958. Luckily, the bomb wasn't fully functional and the only casualties were a flock of chickens.
mo4E TIL the US used survivorship bias to improve airplanes in World War II. The bullet holes in returning aircraft represented areas where a bomber could take damage and still fly, while bullet-free areas needed reinforcement.
YQrG TIL At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona Zhang Shan became the first and only woman to win a gold medal in a mixed gender event; Skeet Shooting. She was unable to defend her title at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta because the Skeet Shooting event was only open to men.
l7NL1 TIL that in 1919 Pacific Improvement Company was looking to attract more people to their coastal developments. 29 year old Samuel Morse pitched the idea of a coastal golf course, and they agreed. Today this course is called Pebble Beach. (Also Samuel’s cousin by the same name invented Morse code. )