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TIL that in 1978, a man was shot clean through the face by a particle beam and is still alive today.

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d01E TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of a US ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.
Ovwe TIL J.R.R. Tolkien started the Hobbit while grading examination papers. He found a blank page in one of the exams. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
l7MJa TIL the song Jeremy by Pearl Jam is a real story about Jeremy Wade Delle who committed suicide in front of his class on January 8, 1991. His death wasn't more than a paragraph in local news Eddie Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and to give it more importance."
jNeLM TIL Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic 3 in 1993 but chose to remain uncredited because he was unhappy with the sound capabilities of the Sega Genesis
nWNb TIL that when Susan Kuhnhausen, an ER nurse, was confronted in her house by a crab-hammer wielding hitman, she struggled with him and wound up choking him to death. The hitman had been sent by her ex-husband.