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TIL that in 2006, thieves planning to steal one of a zoo’s koalas changed tack after it proved too vicious and stole a crocodile instead which was easier

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b9VRQ TIL Dr. Henry Heimlich performed the Heimlich maneuver in his assisted-living facility in 2016 (at age 96), saving a woman's life.
VMQvp TIL At the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott performed a live demonstration where he held out a hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded
ne81B TIL that the Tetris theme song came from a russian folk song by the name of Коробе́йники
QJm1e TIL of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat who helped clear landmines left over from the Cambodian civil war from over 225,000 square metres of land. He was capable of sniffing out the TNT in explosives, and could work much faster than humans since he was too light to detonate the mines.
PokE TIL Rick James’ autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood.