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TIL of Dragonskin a new generation of body armor. In one test this armor was shot by 150 rounds of various calibers of bullets including steel core rounds. It took a grenade at point blank range to damage the armor and yet was not enough to break through.

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59eD TIL There Is A Psychosomatic Illness That Causes People To Think They Are Pregnant With Dogs

DQOkJ TIL treadmills were used in Victorian times as punishments in prison

OOj6 TIL Mr. Rogers had a jazz trio accompanying him onset, while taping the show, rather than using prerecorded, queued music.

WkOVd TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.

0BKA TIL in 2004, a Wal-Mart was built on a section of Teotihuacan. Ancient artifacts were shipped off to dumps by workers who found them on the site.