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TIL there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia
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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%
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TIL The director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi also wrote the critically acclaimed “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad.
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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
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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
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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.