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TIL that the artist Mary Vincent (McGriff) survived a SA at age 15 where the perpetrator cut both her forearms off and threw her off a cliff. She survived and walked several miles before being rescued.

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VMDl8 TIL of Margaret Corbin. When her husband went into battle in the American Revolution, she went along side him. When he was killed she took his post and was able to fire, clean and aim the cannon with great ease and speed.
PVPn TIL wild elephants have around double the life expectancy of their zoo counterparts.
9JlB TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack. [Repost]
p8wA8 TIL German longjumper "Luz" Long gave Jesse Owens advice allowing him to win gold at 1936 Berlin Olympics. Long won silver. During the war, Long asked Jesse to tell his son "what times were like when we were not at war... how things can be between men on this earth", before being killed in 1943.
d8v1j TIL the Army’s 4th infantry division is called the “Ivy Division”, because the Roman numeral for 4 is IV