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TIL A 10-year-old boy's life was saved from choking after his friend performed the Heimlich maneuver that he learned from The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat".

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rRR4x TIL of Gino Bartali - champion Italian cyclist. During WWII, he cycled through Italy carrying messages for the Italian Resistance. He even smuggled Jews in a wagon with a secret compartment telling people it was part of his training.
QJLkL TIL of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Winston Churchill had food diverted away from Bengal to Europe, resulting in as many as four million Bengali deaths. His response was that Indians 'breed like rabbits anyway.'
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