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TIL that the current existing nuclear waste can power the world for 72 years

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DQ0dp TIL one of the few people actually killed by an Australian Cassowary was an American man who thought it was a good idea to keep one as a pet.
NXQ7Q TIL: Henry Heimlich got to use the Heimlich maneuver in 2016, 40+ years after he invented it when a fellow senior in his living community was choking. He was 96 and while had demonstrated it countless times, he had never used it in a real scenario until then.
8e6MG TIL in 1945 there were statues created from the measurements of 15,000 American men and women, representing the average size and shape of a U.S. citizen. They were named Normman and Norma.
0JKR TIL that one of the first scientists to discover nitrous oxide completely missed its use as an anesthetic because he ended up just using it to get high (having first experimented on it to see if it could cure hangovers)
neKYY TIL that in 1864, two ships were wrecked on the Auckland Islands at the same time and neither group were aware of the other. One group rescued themselves by sailing to New Zealand in a homemade ship; all five survived. The other group was rescued by a passing ship and only 3 out of 25 survived.