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TIL 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in world are just in India.

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LVb0 TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.
9YpOG TIL in the 1946 movie It's A Wonderful Life when the pharmacist hits young George Baily (Bob Anderson) in anger and blood comes out of the child's ear, that was not a special effect. The pharmacist really smacked him so hard that the child's ear started bleeding.
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G5NN TIL More people are killed by hammers every year than by rifles.
b9gyj TIL When a patient is zapped with a defibrillator, their heart stops beating altogether - the two electric paddles attached to the patient's chest essentially 'reset' the heartbeat. Once the heartbeat stops, the heart starts afresh and begins beating normally again.