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TIL a lady passed away because a supervisor had told the coworker trying to resuscitate her to stop, and “get back on the phone and take care of customers.”

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0yrv TIL of the Darien Gap, a thick rain forested area on the Pan-American highway that prevents people from truly driving across North and South America.
0gZv TIL That when a stretched out slinky is dropped, the bottom stays still in mid air until the two ends meet (Skip to 16 seconds)
mxeAv TIL The mystery of what happened to the Roanoke settlement ("The Lost Colony") has been solved conclusively. They moved to Croatoan island and merged with the local population.
N7yDJ TIL ancient Chinese physicians kept a small ivory "medicine doll" in their desks to help them treat female patients, who were forbidden from showing too much skin to a male other than their husband. Women seeking medical attention would point to the areas on the doll where they had discomfort.
69p7 TIL that a Uranium deposit in Africa naturally developed criticality and produced fission power for hundreds of thousands of years. It was a “natural nuclear reactor”.