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TIL The earliest defibrillation was done on a chicken in 1775

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VJoQ TIL Sandia Labs engineers created a ‘self-guided’ bullet that directs itself like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away.
9YvNM TIL in the 1600s to avoid slavery a group of Africans on St. Vincent Island acquired the customs and language of the Native American group Kalipona so that Europeans would consider them to be native and leave them alone.