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TIL that smacking a heart patient in the chest with your fist is a legitimate technique called a Precordial thump.

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wKWY TIL there is a mushroom in Oregon that is the largest living organism in the world: it’s 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles (8.4 square km) and spread primarily underground
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.
69LKl TIL about Walter Tetley, the voice actor who portrayed Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve in the 1940s-50s and Sherman on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the 1960s. It was rumored that his mother had had him 'fixed' before his voice changed
BgeWe TIL that over 1.2 million spiders were "silked" to gather around 36.000km of spider silk from which the "Golden Spider Silk Cape" was woven.
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