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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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neaR9 TIL Journalists and Activists Cant Account to Where Half a Billion in Charitable Donations to Haiti Went
4XGvN TIL the name of "Germany" in the Navajo language means "Metal Cap-wearer Land", referencing the distinctive wartime steel helmets. In Plains Cree, it is "Among the Steel Helmets", and in Lakota, it is "Bad Speaker Land".
4X6Go TIL in computing, half of a byte is called a nibble
KYJE4 TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation.
ndA9 TIL there is a proposal to allow for the free movement of people between Canada, the U.K., New Zealand and Australia, which in a poll of 67,000 people, over 90% were in favor of