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TIL there is no longer any anti-venom available if you are bitten by a coral snake. Production of coral snake anti-venom ceased in 2008 because pharmaceutical companies found it to be unprofitable.

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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.
7rj9Z TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.
oWNR TIL Google’s first ever tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” which when converted from binary means, “I’m feeling lucky”.
LQ0ZZ TIL that mad Swiss novelist Robert Walser hand-wrote his later novels in “Microscripts”, such difficult microscopic pencil script that it took years after his death to decipher them. It didn't help that he spent the last 3 decades of his life in a mental institution, suffering from schizophrenia.
yVdNl TIL about Nicaraguan Sign Language. A form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf school children in Nicaragua in the 1980's. It is not based on any other existing language and is considered by linguists to be an entirely new language.