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TIL how to perform the Heimlich manouver on yourself... Because you deserve to live.

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BnWK TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.
AJ94 TIL that in polytheistic Rome only few hundred people were killed over religious disputes in few hundred years. When Rome turned monotheistic, millions were killed over religious grounds in a few decades
4XXQN You know, just in case
VeDk TIL in 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive inside a box containing an air pump, a lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. Two plastic pipes provided her with outside air. Her kidnappers demanded and received a $500,000 ransom, and she was rescued three days later.
78GmO TIL Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack contained death predictions of real and fictional people as a marketing trick so people would want to see the results in the next annual almanac. Franklin would sometimes include false death reports of astrologers as a running joke.