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TIL that 13% of people who receive CPR outside of a hospital are still alive a year later.

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6ddQ TIL civil rights activist Wade Watts was surrounded by Klansmen at a restaurant who told him “Anything you do to that chicken we’re gonna do to you”. So he kissed it.
OoN7g TIL Isaac Newton formulated laws of optics, gravity and calculus in his early 20s while in lockdown from the plague.
R7Bx9 TIL Coca-cola originally intended as medicine.Is the ONLY company (US) that can legally import coco leaves. Early Coca-Cola had active amounts of cocaine in it from 1886-1930
9Y0pm TIL Pacific sardines decreased by 95% between 2006-2017, believed to be caused by overfishing
WZpN TIL: Nikola Tesla was offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison Company’s direct current generators for fifty thousand dollars. After months of work, when Tesla asked for payment Edison refused and said “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor”