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TIL Defibrillators don't start hearts, they stop them (to force a hopefully good restart)

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w74W TIL there was a character as popular as a meme in World War II named Kilroy. The phrase “Kilroy was here” was graffitied by soldiers across the world during the war, and nobody knows who the real original Kilroy was.
x6v00 TIL the only living queen grandmother in the world is in Bhutan
9wX5m TIL that the diving beetle plays a role in a Cherokee creation story. According to the narrative, upon finding nowhere to rest in the "liquid chaos" the beetle brought up soft mud from the bottom. This mud then spread out to form all of the land on Earth.
rXmw TIL that America donates the most per capita to charity than any other country.
dAZr TIL Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, threw insults at the president and his unreceptive audience for nearly half an hour. Nearly the entire crowd was furious at him by the end, and his speech was ignored by most of the media for weeks afterwards