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TIL Dr. Henry Heimlich performed the Heimlich maneuver in his assisted-living facility in 2016 (at age 96), saving a woman's life.

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LkkBV TIL: The country of Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo mistakenly thought he landed in Mogadishu, Somalia and then misspelled the name of the city
p896Q TIL that “witch windows” are almost exclusively found in Vermont due to the superstition that witches can’t fly their brooms through slanted windows.
Yn8r TIL there is a gang of Serbian thieves named The Pink Panthers who have pulled off Mission Impossible styled heists netting over EUR 300 Million in jewels. Their leader, Dragan Mikic, escaped prison by scaling a wall while the Pink Panthers shot at guards with machine guns
BrMQd TIL that purple and violet aren't the same thing. While violet is the name for the colour at the end of the light spectrum, purple is just the name for the combination of red and blue.
Br6Ar TIL of the Regent's Park Skating Disaster, when on January 16, 1867, hundreds of skaters fell through the ice in Regent's Park in London, resulting in the deaths of 41 people.