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TIL the British Heart Foundation recommends performing CPR to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive”. The song has around 104 BPM, and and 100-120 chest compressions per minute are ideal.

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vPdJR TIL that UGG footwear, despite formerly being known as UGG Australia, currently worn in the US are not actually Australian, and are basically copies of actual Australian UGG footwear.
4Xyxa TIL Ed Sullivan took heat from show sponsors Ford Lincoln dealers, for kissing Pearl Baily on the cheek and shaking Nat King Cole's hand during his TV show. He also had a Ford executive thrown out of the theater after he suggested Sullivan should stop booking so many black acts.
W7o54 TIL that moslem women are not allowed to fast during their period. They are also not allowed to pray or enter a mosque. (Patriarchy at it's best?)
nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.
07oj TIL that during WW II the 603rd unit was designated as Camouflage Engineers. Many of the soldiers were recruited from arts schools and set designers. Their objective was not only to teach camouflage, but to deceive the enemy through the art of design. They became known as the Ghost Army