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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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BgZ1e TIL a pop up restaurant in Japan hired only elderly people with dementia to reduce the stigma attached to it. The customers still ate the food they were served even if the waiters got it wrong.
dDjRr TIL about skunk cabbage - a Canadian plant that is capable of creating temperatures tens of degrees above ambient in order to melt its way through frozen ground! Thanks to this truly Canadian feature, skunk cabbage blooms while there is still snow and ice on the ground.
X0v16 TIL that an A&W restaurant in Lansing Michigan is credited with inventing the bacon cheeseburger, some say due to customers constantly requesting it.
kJdbE TIL: The slow worm is neither a worm nor a snake despite having no limbs.
W4Lo TIL that injecting yourself intravenously with papayas would cause your Immunoglobulins to fragment, resulting in the cease of function of the adaptive immune system.