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TIL there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia

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BOAd TIL in medical dramas, 75% of patients who receive CPR are revived. A study of real-world patients found the rate to be as low as 4%
xGAk TIL The director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi also wrote the critically acclaimed “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad.
grjr4 TIL: Beaufort's Dyke, a deep ocean trench between Ireland and Scotland where the UK has dumped over a million tons of surplus munitions including nuclear waste. Occasionally some munitions wash up on the surrounding shores
grdBb TIL an infection model explains why spiral galaxies have spiral arms—the deaths of massive stars trigger star formation elsewhere (infection), while their vicinities recover due to the dispersed material; this propagation/recovery and the galaxy's rotation leads to the spiral structures
0wDgv TIL that 100 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles. These crocodile relatives were nicknamed BoarCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc and PancakeCroc.