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TIL The earliest defibrillation was done on a chicken in 1775

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Wk158 TIL Charles Dickens wrote the popular Christmas classic, "A Christmas Carol," in six weeks. Dickens was a passionate advocate of the poor and defenseless who experienced his own hardship, at twelve, when his parents and younger brothers were put in debtors’ jail and he had to work off their debts.
LKX0 TIL that there was once a breed called the Turnspit Dog, also known as the Kitchen Dog or Cooking Dog. They were bred to help in kitchens by turning a wheel that ensured that meat was cooked evenly. The breed is now extinct.
lXLr TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
QNdp9 TIL that in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park while being dead. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle, and the horse crossed the finish line in first place.
0wBAv TIL that the act of throwing someone through a window is known as "defenestration", coined after an argument in Prague Castle about religion in 1618 led to three people being thrown out a third-storey window.