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TIL Chainsaws were developed to aid in childbirth

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OoZL4 TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.
EZMo TIL that Michaelangelo began dissecting cadavers at age 17 and Johns Hopkins researchers now believe he painted God with an anatomically correct brain stem on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
ADDGB TIL expandable water toys are made possible by superabsorbant materials first used in sanitary pads and adult diapers
Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
R5k7a TIL that the Quokka, when faced with a predator, will drop it's baby from it's pouch to provide a distraction for it to escape.