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TIL about Sonja Ivanoff, and the Alaskan law requiring any on duty police officer convicted of murder to have a mandatory 99 year sentence.

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awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
M7PK0 TIL an off-duty nurse saved a boy's life by giving him CPR when his heart stopped after he was hit in the chest with a baseball bat during a Little League game. Seven years later that same boy saved the nurse's life by giving her the Heimlich maneuver after she started choking in a restaurant.
x9v7 TIL that there is almost no correlation between cell phone connection quality and “bars” of service.
MePda TIL philosopher, architect and polymath Robert Hooke invented an acoustic string telephone as early as 1667.
x61kB TIL Helsinki, Finland was used to film many Cold War era Hollywood movies when filming in the USSR was not possible. Examples include The Kremlin Letter (1970), Reds (1981), and Gorky Park (1983).