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TIL Armadillo shells are capable of deflecting bullets. A Texan man who tried to shoot an armadillo found himself in the hospital after the bullet bounced back off the animal and hit him in the face.

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7rRkL TIL during the shooting of 'Groundhog Day', a crowd of 500 had gathered to watch. Bill Murray said "You know what these people need? Danishes!", went in to the bakery, bought all the cakes he could find and gave them to the crowd.
OG647 TIL about Don Black, a white supremacist, member of the American Nazi Party, Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of the neo-nazi, Holocaust denial, homophobic website Stormfront; he was arrested by the ATF in 1981 while attempting a naval invasion and armed overthrow of the government of Dominica
E10V TIL: That “Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others.” And “Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, Rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.”
XEZBE TIL that superglue was more or less invented by accident in 1942, in an attempt to develop plastic gun sights for the war effort.
ne5Y9 TIL that millions of years ago, antarctica used to be a temperate rainforest