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TIL sometimes hospital workers pretend to perform CPR while letting someone die.

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nWEgo TIL that the intro to 1984 song “People Are People” by Depeche Mode was created by taking kitchen utensils, such as pots and pans, throwing them down the stairs, recording the sounds, and then looping the sounds.
8a1PG TIL during WWII, Girl Scouts couldn't sell cookies because many of the ingredients needed were being rationed to the military. In light of this some of them sold Girl Scout calendars, or collected and sold scrap metal.
J1DrV TIL that the Columbine massacre was actually a failed bombing. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planted bombs and attempted to blow up the school and kill hundreds of people but they failed and instead did the shooting.
OoYkg TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it
m1NdE TIL that honey never spoils, and edible honey has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back over 3,000 years.