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TIL Doing chest compressions to the Bee Gees’ song Staying Alive is a legitimate medical practice

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l7B67 TIL the fastest heartbeat ever recorded was 600 beats per minute
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ADn1n TIL that upon reading the Serbian response to the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum, Kaiser Wilhelm II said that there was no need for war, however, Austria-Hungary, which previously got a German Blank Check, declared war on Serbia the same day
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