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TIL an off-duty Brazilian policeman in uniform had a cell phone in his back pocket when he visited his parents to do laundry. His parents were being held hostage by 2 robbers; when the policeman turned to flee, the robbers shot him in the buttock, but his Nokia Lumia 520 phone stopped the bullet.

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Z0Eo TIL men fall in love faster than women
VMjNk TIL about Cher Ami, a pigeon serving the US Military in WWI, who despite being shot through the breast, losing a leg and being blinded in one eye, successfully delivered messages that saved hundreds of US Soldiers. She died shortly after and is now on display at the Smithsonian
DQrv TIL in 1995, Newsweek published an article to suggest that the Internet was doomed to die. “So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?”
pB7e TIL that the first three major tenets of early Rastafarian beliefs were “Hatred of Whites”, “Superiority of Blacks” and “Revenge on Whites for their wickedness”
4kML6 TIL Courtney Love called out Marilyn Manson and the band Korn for sleeping with underage girls in 2005