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TIL TV shows show CPR working around 75% of the time, while in real life its effectiveness is actually 5-7%.

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wgD7 TIL that at around 5PM EST is when the greatest proportion of the world is sleeping (55-60%)
OGXy7 TIL midnight screenings of movies have become increasingly rare since the 2012 Aurora shooting at a midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
99ZQ TIL of the Nedelin catastrophe - a Soviet ICBM launch that went wrong, killing 78 (or more) people, who could not escape the explosion and burning fuel. It was suppressed by the government until 1989. Graphic video in comments
wDdM TIL that Martha Stewart got high with Snoop Dogg at the Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber.
0w5Zy TIL more than half the American deaths in the War of 1812 were from Kentucky