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TIL that River Phoenix's birth name is River Bottom
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TIL that if you played the actual, framed golden record awarded to artists, it will probably play a completely different album than the one the award is for.
69e68
TIL the survival rate of cardiac arrest outside Hospital with CPR is 11.2%. With immediate defibrillator it’s 41%
KyXJ
TIL General Tso’s Chicken is an American dish. It was unknown of in China before it was introduced by chefs returning from the United States.
OovOe
TIL Boston's debut album was initially rejected because band founder Tom Scholz had recorded and produced it entirely in his basement. In order to appease/fool the label, Scholz hired someone to pretend to produce the album while he rerecorded and reproduced the same album from his basement again.
WkA04
TIL Darwin never used the word "evolution" in his book On the Origin of Species, he instead called the process "descent with modification". He only used the term "evolved" once, as the last word of the last sentence of the book.