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TIL Black Americans started America's first ever fully trained ambulance services staffed by paramedics. It began with Freedom House Ambulance Service...

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nWXQ7 TIL that internal combustion engines can run on wood. Using a device called a gasifier, the engine can run on the gasses produced when wood or charcoal burns.
p8NkZ TIL the original, ancient name for the 2nd largest pyramid in Egypt, the pyramid of Khafre, is "Great is Khafre".
Wkdy9 TIL that Lt. ”Mad” Jack Churchill wielded his bagpipes, broadsword and longbow when leading his men in WW2. He used the pipes to inspire his men, is recorded doing hand-to-hand fighting with his broadsword against a German regiment and has the only registered kill with a longbow in centuries.
l5LN TIL that the face for the female CPR mannequin “Rescue Anne” was created in in 1958 from the facial mold of a young woman fished from the Seine River in the 1880’s
GYWEJ TIL A high school in Nunavut, Canada takes students on fox trapping sessions, offers polar bear body parts for science class, and has events where students skin seal meat for elders