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TIL There are still people living in iron lungs

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8awla TIL Napoleon discovered in his Egyptian campaign, the remains of an ancient canal linking the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He planned to rebuild the canal, but gave up when it seemed to expensive. This was a couple decades before the Suez Canal.
0Kv5 TIL that 50% of health care spending is used to treat just 5% of the population.
DQLpr TIL more than 86% of psychologists have themselves sought therapy (average of 221 sessions), and 62% identify as depressed, themselves.
4k9WX TIL that in the UK it is illegal to remove any natural materials such as sand, shells and pebbles from a beach.
v19RR TIL a 54-year-old man is the first known person to survive a sudden cardiac arrest and remain neurologically intact after spending 96 minutes without a heartbeat.