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TIL One-third of the world cannot see the Milky Way

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N7gpb TIL that Henry Hiemlich used the Hiemlich Maneuver for the first time, at 96 years old in 2016.
JY8yk Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists
obZr TIL Georg Von Trapp Killed 684 French Sailors during WWI. His family would be later be the basis for “The Sound of Music”.
lvDG TIL in the Korean war US officer Dave Teich disobeyed orders and took 4 tanks to save 65 men from 300k Chinese troops attacking their position.
bE54 TIL that as part of a marketing campaign in 2012, Nestle posted a photo on Instagram of a person in a bear costume playing drums, using Kit Kats as drum sticks. Nestle removed the photo shortly afterwards amid controversy that it looked like “Pedobear”