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TIL Your song by Elton John is 50 years old!

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D1Nne TIL In 1929, W. Forssmann performed the first human heart cath on himself. He tricked the OR nurse, put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into his arm, then walked to the X-ray room to see if it reached his heart. He was fired from the hospital, but awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956.
yVJWp TIL Earthworms are invasive to North America
R7MZa TIL The Chinese, as a nation, are not keen on dairy foods and many are uncomfortable with the very idea of cheese, with the exception of the south-western province of Yunnan
wL7AP TIL of David Shaw, an Australian scuba diver/aircraft pilot who recorded his own death while attempting to retrieve a 10 year old corpse from a 200+ metre deep underwater cave. The corpse belonged to a young diver who had gone missing 10 years earlier while on a dive.
ZDp4 TIL that in 2002 a fire broke out at a girls school in Saudi Arabia and the religious police prevented girls from escaping because rescuers would be sexually enticed by the ‘improperly covered’ girls. 16 died.