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TIL that flipping a coin isn’t a 50/50 odd… It is actually around 51/49 to the side up when you flip

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Z8wea TIL the oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world is a tortoise named Jonathon, aged 187. He is two years away from reaching the age of the all-time verified record holder for the world's oldest tortoise, according to Guinness World Records.
LQv8V TIL that three of the four presidents on Mt. Rushmore (Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln) worked as land surveyors before starting their political careers
Z8ZA4 TIL 20 first responders performed CPR on a dying man for more than an hour and a half until paramedics arrived. He survived.
R5Vbj TIL one of the Japanese airmen who attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 is still alive.
Oogd4 TIL That graffiti from Pompeii survived the Vesuvius eruption. Some of the immortalized words recorded are; "Aufidius was here. Goodbye", "Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!" & "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis"