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September 7, 2013
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Apollo 12 was hit by lightning twice within a minute of launch, knocking out the command module instruments, lighting up nearly every warning light on the control panel and garbling the telemetry to mission control. Earlier training simulating such a failure allowed them to restore power.

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One Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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Dorothy Stang was an American nun who dedicated her life to preserving the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. She helped the poor by teaching them how to harvest products from the forest and sought to protect peasants from gangs working for farmers. She was murdered by criminals hired by a rancher.

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After Attila the Hun died, his soldiers plucked out the hair of their heads and made their faces hideous with deep wounds, so that the great warrior should not be mourned by effeminate wailings and tears, but by the blood of men.

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When Vincent Van Gogh cut his left ear with a razor, he was taken to hospital and was treated by Dr Felix Rey. Van Gogh painted a portrait of Rey and gave it to him, who used it to repair a chicken coop, then gave it away. In 2016, it was valued at over $50 million.

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NBC's broadcast of Schindler's List was the first film to get a TV-M rating and was unedited. The broadcast was controversial, with a Republican congressman complaining "it was all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity and a insult to decent-minded individuals everywhere”.

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During the 30-years war the Count of Tilly was going to burn down a city, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, when a councilman tried to change his mind with 3 1/2 liters of wine. The Count declared that if anyone could drink it all in one go, he would spare the city. The mayor succeeded, and Tilly left.

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In 897, 7 months after dying, Pope Formosus' rotting corpse was exhumed, propped on a throne, and put on trial for a variety of offenses. A deacon sat behind the corpse answering for it, and unsurprisingly the corpse was found guilty of all charges and punished by having three fingers cut off.

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At the age of 14, in 1905, Charles de Gaulle wrote a short story titled "General De Gaulle" in which he imagined himself leading the French Army to victory over Germany "sometime in the 1930s.”

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Boxer Tony Galento would avoid bathing before a fight so he could distract opponents with his body odor.

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