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TIL that people report being bored about 10 hours a week at work, according to researchers.

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KO0JJ TIL that although it is commonly shown in medical dramas, you do not shock someone with a flatline. You only use defibrillators on people with ventricular fibrillation, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (heart beats out of rhythm or heart beats that are really fast and out of sync)
OoOJ6 Today I Learned that the seed, inner bark, pollen, and needles of some pine trees are edible.
m1kgE TIL The Trojan Horse story likely never happened, and was instead a creative misunderstanding of an actual historical use of a siege engine.
WkE1Y TIL about Golden Rice, genetically modified rice that has an increased nutritional value in an attempt to fight malnutrition in poverty stricken places.
d8oYQ TIL That if you combined all of the area of the Nordic countries together, nearly 2/3 of it would just be Greenland. If Greenland became it's own country (it's currently a territory of Denmak), it would be the least densely populated country on the planet.