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TIL that Henry Heimlich, the man who created the Heimlich Maneuver, is still alive

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VB6pp TIL that men should be drinking more than 15 cups of water each day, and women should be drinking more than 11 cups each day.
OGMdY TIL that in 1958 an atomic bomb that fell on a farm in South Carolina and didn't detonate, leaving a massive crater sized at 24 feet deep and 50 feet wide.
16b0r TIL The fuel tanks of a Boeing 747 are in its wings. And it can carry over 50k gallons of it.
QNJXa TIL that hockey players Claude and Brendan Lemieux are the only father and son to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players.
4vag TIL in 1987 an 18 year old came up with an idea to raise $28,000 he needed for college. He contacted a newspaper columnist, asking to write his readers a request: send a penny each. They sent 90,000 letters and $29,000. He graduated with a Food Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1991