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TIL Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen and “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees.

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