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TIL that only 10 to 20 percent of people receiving CPR in a hospital survive long enough to be discharged.

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MGV TIL when AOL launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, they used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. All of it.
E1VN7 TIL the physicist Arthur Holly Compton, whose "scattering" experiment showed that photons have momentum, invented the "speed hump" on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis
D1o1v TIL Bill gates bought a Porsche 959 which was seized by customs & sat on a storage for 13 years before he helped pass law “show & display law” which allowed for legally importing exotic cars that did not meet the federal safety standards
yJo8 TIL that Steve Jobs almost named the iMac Macman. This would have meant we would now be using Podmans, Padmans, and Phonemans.
JYvRv TIL of the McCollough effect, a visual phenomenon which alters perception of horizontal and vertical lines. The effect can last for up to three months, if the viewer looks at the images that trigger it long enough.