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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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R7BQ8 TIL that after Ukraine banned the display of communist symbols in 2015, the city of Odessa turned a statue of Lenin into a monument to Darth Vader
pYPxN TIL about Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox, a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It demonstrates that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate an infinite number of additional guests.
NXXaE TIL that Best Foods mayo and Hellman’s mayo are one and the same. So if their logos and packaging look similar, it’s because when Best Foods bought Hellmans they decided to merge the branding to retain Hellman’s loyal customers. Another example is Dreyer’s and Edy’s ice cream.
j6pjX TIL in Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Cambodians of Chinese descent were massacred by the Khmer Rouge under the justification that they "used to exploit the Cambodian people". Despite this, the Chinese government did not protest the killings, and provided at least 90% of Cambodia's foreign aid.
v1jj TIL that it would be physically impossible to write down all the zeroes in a googolplex (10^10^100), because there simply isn’t enough room in the universe.