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TIL that after being shot in a failed assassination attempt in 1981, President Ronald Reagan's first remark to the First Lady was "Honey, I forgot to duck" a reference to a one-liner used by boxer Jack Dempsey after he lost his heavyweight title.

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RZE6 TIL of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who, during a 6 hour spacewalk on the ISS, nearly became the first man to drown in space when his helmet began to inexplicably fill with water.
K0A6 TIL that the speculated inventor of Tiramisu “does not have the time or the energy” to prove it, and claims it is “just a desert”. He currently runs a small family restaurant in Little Italy, Baltimore. MD
Wkn8Y TIL that in South Dakota people are allowed to pull over and shoot animals from the roadside, even if they have to aim over the road itself.
e097g TIL: Long before Jack Daniels, George Washington was a whiskey tycoon
xVOro TIL an off-duty Brazilian policeman in uniform had a cell phone in his back pocket when he visited his parents to do laundry. His parents were being held hostage by 2 robbers; when the policeman turned to flee, the robbers shot him in the buttock, but his Nokia Lumia 520 phone stopped the bullet.