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TIL New York-Presbyterian Hospital Created and maintains a Life-Saving CPR Spotify Playlist. Each track consists of the “right beat” to time CPR compressions, so that 100 chest compressions are done per min.

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JYZE1 TIL Our brains do not necessarily process everything as that would be an overload of information, a study from 2016 found that under the influence of LSD, the brain recruited many more regions for visual processing than normal, enriching the images people saw even when their eyes were shut.
GYbZG TIL that Turtles are omnivores and eat lots of plants - when they do this they are also eating the plants seeds. Many seeds are spread when turtles defecate. They also can carry seeds on their shells, often covered in algae.
7rKDr TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
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NXvle TIL R. Lee Ermey was the only person ever allowed to improvise dialogue in a Kubrick film.