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TIL that bullet-resistant glass can be designed to work one way and not the other

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jNeNM TIL in 2014 an Australian physics professor submitted a paper titled "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" to a scientific journal that sent him unsolicited emails. The paper was accepted for publication, but the journal kept emailing him.
ma7y TIL in 1995 a plain clothes Boston Police officer was brutally beaten by his fellow officers after they mistook him for a fleeing suspect. BPD officers tried to intimidate and harass him into staying quiet afterwards.
QN8w6 TIL Metallica played a concert in Antarctica to an audience of scientists, thus becoming the first musical act to play on all seven continents.
gMyvX TIL of Steven Bradbury's olympic gold after all of his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up.
KY0RR TIL Link Wray’s 1958 instrumental "Rumble" was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The song is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the USA.