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TIL A woman was brought back to life with no ill effects 6 hours after her heart stopped beating

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8avNK TIL of the largest mass kidnapping in US history. A school bus driver and 26 children were abducted as part of a failed ransom plot in 1976. They were buried alive in the back of a moving van. The driver, with help from some of the older kids, managed to open a trapdoor and free everyone inside.
rRXye TIL that the US also had concentration camps like germany during WW2 for Japanese Americans and so called Aleuts. They were forced to live in barely humane conditions in cramped shacks without plumbing or cooking facilities, while they also burned down some of the villages of the imprisioned.
Eg5K7 TIL that laughter is a universal language! A study found that even babies as young as six months can recognize different types of laughter.
0w86v TIL that a Russian Black widow bomber blew herself up when her phone company sent her a spam text message, causing her explosive device to explode prematurely.
YpB8A TIL "The China Syndrome" film about a nuclear reactor meltdown was released just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown catapulting the film into a blockbuster hit