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TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets

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aw0xA TIL Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived 2 atomic bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the first bomb was dropped. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki. As he was explaining to his boss what happened, the second bomb was dropped. He was within 2 miles of ground zero both times.
1YGd TIL that Dan Bullock altered his birth certificate so that he could join the Marines in 1968. Six months later he became the youngest service member to die in combat in Vietnam. He was 15.
Am6w TIL Michael Jackson did actually star in the Simpsons episode “Stark Raving Dad” but DIDN’T actually sing any of the songs due to contractual reasons with Sony.
yQ1BX TIL in 1989 Meat Loaf, his career floundering, was booked on a ram­shackle tour of some of Ireland’s worst com­mu­nity cen­tres, ball­rooms, hotel func­tion rooms, sheds and fields. He walked off-stage at a gig in Moate after he was pelted with beer cans, glasses, bot­tles, shoes, and a wheelchair
9ZkM TIL that Adolph Coors III, who was the heir to the Coors beer empire, was allergic to beer.