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TIL within 1 hour after using cocaine, the risk of getting a heart attack is elevated 24 times.

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d8Za8 TIL tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up.
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