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TIL that the Heimlich Maneuver’s inventor is accused of medical fraud and unethical practices–including the invention of the maneuver itself.

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BgWBW TIL that in 1977, European TV airwaves were taken over by an “alien” force, known as Vrillon, of the Ashtar Galactic Command, which delivered a psychedelic message of inner truth and peace. The incident has never been explained.
v1E4K TIL: Scientists used Sunflowers near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident, to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Then again in 2011 at Fukushima to extract radiation from the nearby communities.
VB6d4 TIL about Erzsébet Báthory, the 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman who tortured and killed hundreds of young girls and bathed in their blood to preserve her beauty.
W40Y TIL the National Space Agency budget was 4.41% of the national budget the year we went to the moon. Today it is 0.4 of the national budget.
7rLP7 TIL lobsters have the enzyme called "telomerase" which stops DNA strands called "telomeres" from damage as new cells are made. Other organisms' telomeres erode with age, but lobsters can theoretically live forever, because their ability to create perfect copies of cells never erodes.