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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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b958N TIL the Nazis were very close to developing plutonium, a material used to make atomic bombs. However, the factory producing it was bombed by a team of 11 Norwegian saboteurs, one of them stopping the operation to find his glasses at one point, completely destroying the equipment related.
4X1vJ TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind.
nnob TIL the gif with the laughing black man on a boat is actually the former president of Uganda laughing about the Holocaust.
GVkN TIL that Brad Pitt was banned from ever entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet
OY74 TIL that the spider that bites Tobey Magquire in ‘Spider-Man’ was chosen after a “spider Olympics,” and was then painted with body paint when time didn’t allow for a spider costume to be created