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TIL Korea has a she-bear foundation myth. A god ordered a tiger and bear to stay in a cave and eat only garlic and mugwort for 100 days. The tiger failed, but the bear persisted and transformed into a woman. The she-bear married the god’s son, gave birth to the founder of the oldest Korean kingdom
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TIL that the first use of an external defibrillator was on a 14-year-old boy in 1947. These early defibrillators used alternating current that was transformed from 110–240 volts available in the line, up to between 300 and 1000 volts, to the exposed heart by way of “paddle” type electrodes.
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TIL Brendon Grimshaw purchased Moyenne Island off Seychelles for £8,000 and was its sole inhabitant from 1973 until his death in 2012. He transformed it, planting 16,000 trees and introducing 2,000 birds and 120 giant tortoises. He was offered $50m for it, but had it declared a national park instead
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TIL the Work Progress Administration by FDR in 1939 transformed America by employed millions of people, producing new schools, hospitals, sewers and hydroelectric power plants, as well as murals, sculptures, libraries, LaGuardia Airport and some 650,000 miles of roads and 8,000 parks.
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