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TIL more people have been to the moon than to the bottom of the oceans deepest point (Mariana Trench)

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LkOjP TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a grocery story in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived - and he survived
NZ5b TIL The Mormon Church Maintains A Centralized Committee That Actively Monitors The Writings, Activities, and Speech of its Members
yQdRe TIL for over a decade, NASA used 11 deaf people with damaged vestibular systems (making them immune to motion sickness) to explore how extreme forces might affect astronauts. One test had four men spend 12 straight days in a 20-foot-wide room rotating at 10 revolutions per minute.
avm9 TIL The land that the TV show “The Teletubbies” was filmed on, was flooded by the owner because of the volume of people who came to see it after the set closed for good.
QJade TIL about the oldest surviving song. 3400 years old, the Hurrian Hymn was discovered in Syria, in a clay tablet with Cuneiform text. It was dedicated to the goddess of the orchards Nikkal.