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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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jMpM TIL the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was Operation Meetinghouse - The American firebombing of Tokyo.
D1YNp TIL that the Romans staged a mock Naval Battle in the Colosseum by flooding it.
b90vZ TIL General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a speech in which he took full personal responsibility for the failure of D-Day. History had other plans, however.
WkBW4 TIL about the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place on the 26th July 1950, where US Forces killed a large number of South Korean Civilians. One GI, Norman Tinkler, was later quoted by the Associated Press as having said, “We just annihilated them.”
EEMp TIL George Takei did the voice of Phoebe’s father on Hey Arnold!