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TIL that the beat of Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” is an ideal beat for performing lifesaving CPR chest compressions

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VEKQ TIL NASA has predicted a near collision course with a 300m wide meteorite they’ve named Apophis (Egyptian God of Death and Darkness) in 2036.
6Ewbl TIL that in 2019 there was a sixth Terminator movie (after Terminator: Genysis) which so few people saw that that it was even less successful than Terminator: Genysis. The film grossed only 13% of what was needed to break even and was considered a box office bomb due to lukewarm critical reception.
vLa4 TIL that the current CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, is the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google.
Lk4OQ TIL even after everything The Beatles accomplished and releasing 12 albums, George Harrison was only 26-years-old when the band split in early 1970
djOZ TIL there was a massive ancient civilization in Illinois. In 1250 the lost city of Cahokia was larger than London. Today more than 120 massive earthen mounds are still located on the site.