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TIL Double Dare slime was made from vanilla pudding, applesauce, oatmeal, and green dye in case any of it got in the kids’ mouths, it was perfectly safe.

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neXd9 TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ierland. Since he was denied he planned to fly to California instead. 28 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
GZaj TIL Chris Farley was hired to voice Shrek and had finished 80-90% of his recording sessions at the time of his death
R55M7 TIL after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a team of dredges had to work day and night to clear debris from the Columbia River. When they were finished, they’d collected enough material to fill a football field nearly seven miles high.
NXQ7Q TIL: Henry Heimlich got to use the Heimlich maneuver in 2016, 40+ years after he invented it when a fellow senior in his living community was choking. He was 96 and while had demonstrated it countless times, he had never used it in a real scenario until then.
5VmEp TIL “Corpus Delicti” is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.