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TIL that Obskaya–Bovanenkovo Line is the most northerly railway in the world

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GAgLN 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.
kOey1 TIL that the term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of the townspeople onto a goat and then banish that goat from town sending the burden of their sins with it.
XEWdD TIL coral are actually animals, not plants, since they do not make their own food. They are the largest structures of biological origin on Earth. Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate
4kVjb TIL after Hiroshima, the US pledged to destroy all nuclear weapons if one organization was permitted to control all nuclear material and mining operations on Earth under the Baruch Plan
wgB1 TIL J. R. R. Tolkien received from a fan a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of it, and used it only as an ashtray.