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TIL Spaghetti Marinara wasn’t invented until the New World was discovered, since tomatoes came from the Aztecs. Before that, pasta was eaten plain with no sauce…with your hands.

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ePdD TIL studies indicate that 90% of doctors admit they would reject resuscitation by CPR if they had a choice, compared to 25% of the average public. This is attributed to research showing only 8% of CPR cases actually survive more than 1 month, nearly half of those in a vegetative state.
OPDR TIL Sweden is on a quest to being the first oil-free economy in the world by 2020.
4LyR TIL There’s a pink lake in Australia
W5Zd TIL that Kwanzaa and Festivus were both made up in 1966
9w7R6 TIL Tunisia had an infamously bad performance in modern pentathlon at the 1960 Olympics. One athlete nearly drowned; one got disqualified for firing a pistol too close to the judges; three fell off horses; and they were caught cheating in the fencing part of the event.