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TIL that around 20% of young people lack a gag reflex.
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TIL that the dentist who pioneered the use of laughing gas became addicted to chloroform, threw sulfuric acid over two prostitutes, was sent to prison, and committed suicide with his shaving razor
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TIL women’s peak fertility is at age 24 with women under 25 having a 96% chance to conceive. By age 30, the chance of miscarriage rises 20% and women’s fertility begins to decline at age 35.
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TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to receive an SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases.
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator
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TIL that scientists tried — and failed — to make a knife out of frozen poop, debunking a story that an Inuit (Eskimo) man fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces.