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TIL that hockey player Rich Peverley died on the bench from a cardiac episode, got revived by defibrillator, then asked to be put back in the game.

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e0b1D TIL That DNA computing, using DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology instead of traditional silicone based technologies used in computers is a thing
wL4DW TIL of Raoul Wallenberg who is believed to have saved over 100 000 Hungarian Jews during WW2 by faking passports, and was never seen again after disappearing at the end of the war. Most likely died in a Moscow prison 1947.
p8ooG TIL the division sign symbol is called obelus. I guess there's a name for everything...
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