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TIL that a 47-year-old woman called Tammy Sexton, in Birmingham, Alabama was shot in the head by her husband with a .380-caliber handgun and not only did she survive, she managed to make herself a cup of tea and offered one to a police officer.

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gGpW TIL that the difference between inland seas and lakes is that inland seas are formed as the result of oceans spilling over onto land during warm geological periods.
jxnX TIL that Donald Dunagan, the little boy who did the voice of Bambi grew to become the youngest drill instructor ever in the United States Marines.
ddbQ TIL the highest ever BAC level ever recorded was 0.94%. The average level needed to cause death is 0.34%.
JY7j TIL ants don’t take fall damage
ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.