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TIL humans invented booze before the wheel.

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7rRL7 TIL the first time Dr. Henry Heimlich ever used the Heimlich maneuver was in 2016 when he was 96-years-old. An 87-year-old woman living in the retirement home where he resided began choking on a piece of meat and Dr. Heimlich saved her life.
9YN7Q TIL of the mining town “Rough and Ready” which for 88 days in 1850 seceded from the union becoming “the Great Republic of Rough and Ready”
OooBe TIL Johnny Depp is suing his money managers due to the fact that they are not legally required to do whats best for him
d8gbZ TIL Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese-American animator and designer behind cartoons such as Scooby-Doo, Penelope Pitstop and several Disney characters, learned his skills as a teenage prisoner in the Manzanar internment camp, which held over 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
aw8Ry TIL In 18th century England, some wealthy landowners would hire "ornamental hermits" - poor people dressed in a Druid costume to live in rustic homes in their garden, which may have inspired garden gnome statues