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TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery boy helped save a man's life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. When returning, he said, "I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man." His tip was 25 bucks.

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ob48 TIL if you are lost in the bush, 99% of the time you’ll walk in big circles as big as 1km. The human body will always walk to one side of something (trees in this case) and favour that side every time, unless you’re aware of this fault. There’s also a science to it.
e1pg TIL in many US States, it takes less training to become a police officer than it does to become a barber or manicurist.
yQZy8 TIL that ~95% of the material for the set on Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions was salvaged and reused, some going towards companies who build housing for low-income families.
5VwdR TIL about Ohalo II. A 23,000 year old upper paleolithic settlement with the earliest evidence of brushwood huts/dwellings and of plant cultivation.
j9ba TIL there are people who think the standardized intonation of music (A=440Hz) is inharmonious with the universe and should be changed to A=432Hz, which shares resonance properties with the world around us.