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TIL that paramedics are trained not to run to patients, as walking keeps them calmer on arrival and more likely to take in the situation.

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b7e0 TIL Wikipedia user ‘Seedfeeder’ is responsible for 47 of Wikipedia’s sex drawings including deepthroat, snowballing and pegging
KYJ5G TIL the twin towns of Laufenburg, split by the High Rhine, built a bridge in 2004. Different sea level references—Mediterranean for Switzerland, North Sea for Germany—led to a 270 mm difference, which a sign error doubled to 540 mm in the middle of the bridge.
4KAg TIL the remainder of the Pentagon Papers (docs leaked in 1971 which demonstrated that the US gov’t systematically misled the public about the Vietnam War) were fully declassified in 2011 and are now freely available online
4Owg TIL that one bear - Bart, a 9'6’’ Kodiak - starred in dozens of Hollywood films opposite the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Annette Bening, Ethan Hawke, Gregory Peck, and John Candy. His biopic was narrated by Brad Pitt, with whom he worked in Legends of the Fall
wLM1E TIL Longest marathon in history: the athlete that took more than half a century to cross the finish line