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TIL Alexander Fleming warned that misuse of antibiotics could lead to resistant bacteria during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech for discovering Penicillin

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loyPG TIL Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, has a son, Peter, who is devoted to exposing him as a serial liar and con artist. Peter says his father paid off the study that persuaded the American Red Cross to change its response to choking to Heimlich's.
woAL6 TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the boiling, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.
X0DKk TIL - Flight attendants are taught how to put passengers in a flatulence-friendly position to ease gas related pains
77xX TIL that the Xbox 360’s “Red Ring of Death” problem was so widespread that, in 2007, more than 30% of consoles failed. Repairs cost Microsoft $1.15 billion.
ANVl TIL, an explorer named 7 mountains after his wife’s nipple