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TIL in a Johns Hopkins Survey, 90 percent of doctors said they'd rather die by cardiac arrest than be resuscitated. Only a quarter of the public feels the same way.

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vnDx TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today.
PYOJw TIL a British company sold 1500 magic bomb-detecting dowsing rods to Iraq in 2008 and 2009, for more than £50 million.
aQKo TIL when the space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979, it landed in Esperance, Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, which went unpaid for 30 years until a radio host raised the money and paid it on behalf of NASA.
WkEr4 TIL Manchester United's academy dressing room has a picture of Leo Messi cleaning his own boots to make sure the young players understand the importance of humility
840L TIL The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk, and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.