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TIL The military uses a self-healing coating on its fuel tanks that can allow a bullet to pierce through its walls and snap back to its original shape in a split second!

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gMyk7 TIL of the five naked eye planets. "Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have been known since ancient times and can easily be seen with the naked eye if one knows when and where to look."
Bgd7x TIL a Yale study found that gunshot wounds to the head or other penetrating brain injuries have a 42% chance of survival
yvkJ TIL that there was a female member of the Jackass crew who suffered a severe injury during one of the stunts, after that members of the show decided to no longer use females for stunts. Johnny Knoxville said “It was like watching your sister get hurt, and we don’t want to see girls getting hurt”.
lnpK TIL Verizon’s Customer Agreement says (bluntly put) that their Sales Reps can lie to you and Verizon doesn’t have to honor what their Reps say.
bN97 TIL that the word plagiarism comes from plagiarii. In the ancient Mediterranean world, plagiarii were pirates who kidnapped young children, among other misdeeds. When plagiarists claim someone else’s ideas as their own, they steal someone else’s brainchild.