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TIL Living above the third-floor drastically reduces your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.

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w6M1 TIL The U.S. Armed forces maintains military presence in 150 countries (out of 196), including more than 50,000 troops still in Germany.
eRAD TIL: After the Chernobyl disaster, the soviets held a “May Day” parade to calm the public. The parade was exposed to deadly levels of radiation and all records of the event soon disappeared from the National Archives. The organizer committed suicide.
p8bop TIL that the details of the Manhattan Project were so secret that many workers had no idea why they did their jobs. A laundrywoman had a dedicated duty to "hold up an instrument and listen for a clicking noise" without knowing why. It was a Geiger counter testing the radiation levels of uniforms.
1a6WW TIL that the first man to get a hand transplant begged doctors to amputate it after several months because he had become “mentally detached” from it.
OGol6 TIL that Simon and Garfunkel’s first single, released in 1957, gained popularity after their manager Sid Prosen bribed DJ Alan Freed to play the song on his radio show. The song, Hey Schoolgirl, gained popularity from this and reached #49 in the charts