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TIL that a man was shot in the head and didn’t notice for five years because he was too drunk. A Polish man living in Germany went to the doctor for a headache, only to discover he had a bullet lodged in his skull from a forgotten New Year’s Eve party.

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xDy1 TIL in 1883, the body of a bear and Frank Devereaux were found dead beside each other with the ground around them thrashed for 20 square feet. It’s believed the man and bear fought to the death.
M7Bg0 TIL Katrina Leung was an FBI informant and double agent for US and China. Codenamed “Parlor Maid” she was recruited to spy on China but eventually passed sensitive intel to China. She had sexual relationships with two FBI agents, James Smith and William Cleveland Jr., both of whom were her handlers.
abL TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 5th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.
MElK TIL Due to difficulties importing the necessary ingredients to make Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany, Coca-Cola company decided to make a new product with the available ingredients at that time, the product is called Fanta.
grRB9 TIL that "Walking in Memphis" singer Marc Cohn was shot in the head during a failed carjacking. The bullet missed Cohn's eye and lodged near his skull. Cohn survived and was hospitalized for only 8 hours. Cohn said, "Doctors told me I was the luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long, long time."