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TIL that in 2009,a 57 year old woman in Detroit was shot during a break in in her neighbors house,but she was saved by the metal underwire of her bra deflected the bullet,narrowly saving her.

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DQ5VV TIL Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet by Wiping Out 11% Of The World’s Population, He depopulated so much land that giant forests grew up and scrubbed about 700million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
4pBN TIL there are emergency hotlines for Hall and Oats, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and Chicago. You can listen to their songs in an emergency.
5VJ48 TIL that in 1983 instead of taking Marvel to court for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for plagiarizing his short story "Soldier from Tomorrow", Harlan Ellison settled w/ EIC Jim Shooter for a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel ever published.
nWMp9 TIL Cleopatra VII (7th, the famous one) was the first in her entire dynasty to actually learn Egyptian. As a descendant of the Ptolemies, her bloodline was overwhelmingly Macedonian Greek, yet she was one of the first in her family to blend Greek and Egyptian identities in a serious way.
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.