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TIL the rare 'Peter Pepper' grows to resemble a miniature male organ [NSFW]

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BrQRK TIL TV shows show CPR working around 75% of the time, while in real life its effectiveness is actually 5-7%.
GAKV4 TIL Zachary Taylor's remains were exhumed in 1991 to see if he was poisoned and it was determined arsenic levels were too low
mxYrx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
RNpQ TIL, at age 2, Mozart successfully identified a pig’s squeal as a G-sharp
9wxD6 TIL that Bruce Gamble was a goalie in the NHL for ten years, but his career ended after he suffered a heart attack during a game. He completed the game and did not complain of problems until afterward. He was admitted to a hospital the next day, where it was found that he had had a heart attack.