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TIL that "Walking in Memphis" singer Marc Cohn was shot in the head during a failed carjacking. The bullet missed Cohn's eye and lodged near his skull. Cohn survived and was hospitalized for only 8 hours. Cohn said, "Doctors told me I was the luckiest unlucky guy they had met in a long, long time."

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