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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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epdbL TIL that 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
PdWE TIL Swaziland has 1 psychiatrist.
nEJd TIL an international group of seven people are keyholders for verifying the authenticity of DNS entries, essentially enabling them to ‘restart’ DNS / the internet in the event of a catastrophe.
y14V TIL That every jar of Vegemite ever made has come from the same factory in Melbourne, Australia since 1923
4XAnX TIL that goosebumps are a vestigial reflex (a reflex that has lost its function / purpose through evolution), which would raise the hair of humans to both trap body heat and scare off predators by appearing larger than usual. It is due to this that we get goosebumps when cold or scared.