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TIL only around 3% of people who receive CPR go on to lead a normal life.

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78Mlp TIL that dolphins sleep with one eye open because they need to be consious in order to breathe. If they slept like humans, they would suffocate or drown.
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p64G TIL one person has made 47,000 edits to Wikipedia to correct a single grammatical error: the misuse of the phrase “comprised of”
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