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TIL that 20 people once saved a man performing CPR for 96 minutes, rotating positions while keeping the compressions going. This happened in a Minnesota grocery store in 2011

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x6ajw TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection.
vwDD TIL the Facebook co-founders were required to pay a huge amount of taxes when Facebook went public. It was around this time one of the five Facebook co-founders Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore. He avoided paying $600,000,000 in taxes.
mndp TIL that panic grass grows in Yellowstone park at soil temperatures of 50C (125F). In order to do this, the plant needs the presence of a particular type of fungus. But the fungus in turns needs to be infected with a particular virus. All three are required to survive at this temperature.
r9M0 TIL that one of the scholars who translated the Dead Sea Scrolls was convinced that Christianity was based on an ancient psychedelic mushroom and fertility cult.
6EORW TIL Marlon Brandon was in the Civil Rights movement throughout his career, and later advocated for the rights of indigenous Americans. His outspoken activism, in the midst of the harshly segregated '60s, earned him a reserved place near the podium of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream"