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TIL that the two songs whose tempo is closest to the optimum for performing CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack - 100 bpm - are “Stayin’ Alive” and “Another One Bites The Dust”

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plj4 TIL a Texas man was asked not to swim in a marina due to sightings of an alligator. He responded with “F#$k that alligator” before diving in the water. He was immediately killed by an alligator.
gM6Lb TIL that in 2011, it was discovered by police that the 26 life-sized "dolls" that Russian academic Anatoly Moskvin kept in his apartment each contained a child's corpse. He had dug them up, planning to resurrect them through magic, and built the dolls to give them a body for their resurrection.
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