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TIL Lifeguard instructor Keith Good claimed he “wasn’t on the clock” and refused to administer CPR to a drowned 13 year old.

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KOy56 TIL after Warren Harding’s Teapot Dome scandal the House and Senate were given subpoena power for review of tax records of any US citizen without regard to elected or appointed position, nor subject to White House interference.
6PyJ TIL at the 68th Academy Awards, Apollo 13 lost Best Visual Effects to Babe. That’s right, the talking pig.
R7dya TIL about Esperanto, a language constructed by a Polish ophthalmologist in in 1887 meant to hone world peace.
D1QJp TIL an elite Zimbabwean brigade trained by North Korea and answerable only to Robert Mugabe killed around 20,000 civilians, while quelling an uprising.
loM8N TIL just before Live Aid, Freddie Mercury was told by his doctor not to do the show because of some vocal trouble. He of course, ignored it, and went on to deliver a 20 minutes show that, according to a BBC poll, is the greatest live performance of all time.