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TIL that in 2006 Creed vocalist Scott Stapp attempted suicide by leaping from a Miami hotel balcony; 2 hours later he was discovered on the ground by rapper T.I., whom he credits with saving his life.

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OoDp1 TIL poor ventilation in your bedroom can result in increased carbon dioxide, much higher than standard safety levels. This is associated with poor sleep quality, headaches, and decline in cognitive performance the next day.
1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”
4XyDN TIL: Thanks to a gruesome mistake, a French Canadian Voyageur was shot in the stomach, but later healed and recovered from the wound, scientists were better able to understand the digestive tract thanks to how his wound healed, which allowed probing of his stomach actively digesting.
R745w TIL Tim Wong made the first and only successful attempt at singlehandedly repopulating the extremely rare pipevine swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In seven years, he cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (sole food source) and donates thousands of caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens.
EgP8w TIL that the smallest city in the UK is St Davids, and its population of 1,841 people is just 0.021% the size of London's