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TIL about Lazarus Syndrome where people come back to life without assistance after attempts to resuscitate have failed

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OogwX TIL John Lennon stubbed a cigarette out on a Henri Matisse painting while drunk at the Playboy Mansion, causing the painting to increase in value from its $15m price
QJyL TIL Rashida Jones sang backup vocals on the first two Maroon 5 albums.
d8w99 TIL that the chocolate midge – no bigger than the size of a pinhead – is the only creatures that can pollinate cacao trees, and that the production of chocolate is threatened by the collapse of the insect ecosystem.
MeK7b TIL That Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin concluded the first that stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 thesis, but added that her results were "spurious" because of the consensus at that time. She was eventually proved right by other researchers, yet is almost never credited.
oBxw7 TIL There is company which is harnessing carbon from the air to make fuel for vehicles and aeroplanes. They hope to make it viable economically soon.