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TIL Roughly four thousand years ago an Ancient Egyptian official, Baqet III, had depictions of jugglers engraved within his tomb.

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eblL TIL In New York, a woman saved a little boy’s life giving him CPR after being hit in the chest with a baseball bat. About 7 years later, in 2006 that very same boy saved her from choking to death giving her the heimlich maneuver in the restaurant that he worked.
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