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TIL that in the lakes have snakes

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nGQ7 TIL if a person has had part of their body crushed in an accident and trapped for more than 15 minutes, you should NOT free them without medical personnel on the scene. Crushed muscles break down into toxic byproducts, and releasing the pressure lets these flow into the body, killing the person.
M4m0 TIL Astronaut Steven Swanson – a big Firefly fan – took copies of Firefly and Serenity to the ISS in 2007 and added them to the space station’s movie library.
LQoNP TIL that St. Urho's Day is observed every March 16th, celebrating his driving grasshoppers out of Finland and saving the grapes for the Finnish wine industry
Wex8 TIL that a double rod pendulum creates totally unpredictable trajectories, due to the ‘chaos theory’.
m7Zy TIL If the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon NASA had a plan to sever communication (Nixon had a prewritten speech)