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TIL A ‘Tobacco Enema’, blowing smoke up someones backside, used to be used as a method of resuscitation when someone had drowned

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9w5QQ TIL in 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.
pYJE4 TIL that Melvin Van Peebles received a loan of 50000 Dollars from Bill Cosby to complete his groundbreaking movie "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"
yQ6Ze TIL there are wasps that make honey, called Mexican Honey Wasps.
BJJD TIL that men are more likely to have sons if they have more brothers and are more likely to have daughters if they have more sisters.
b9d84 TIL about 'the Tridge', a three legged wooden footbridge that spans the confluence of the Chippewa and Tittabawassee Rivers in Chippewassee Park in Midland, Michigan. The three legs span out to Chippewassee Park, St. Charles Park and the Farmer's Market areas.