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TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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TIL that Adolph Coors III, who was the heir to the Coors beer empire, was allergic to beer.