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TIL that in 2019 the NHS was using 10% of the world's pagers.

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0dJL1 TIL: Powdered milk is used as a prop on film industry to resemble cocaine, yes it’s snort it too.
BrG9e TIL in 2017, Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240, a 238-mile race in 57 hours with a one minute nap, beating the next competitor by 10 hours.
Gp9g TIL that belief in elves is so widespread in Iceland that in in 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to look for elves who might be endangered by American Phantom jets and AWACS reconnaissance planes.
MrZ7 TIL there is a type of hysteria that affects people living in the Arctic, called pibloktoq. The affected person usually shouts unintelligibly, tears off their clothes and runs around naked – despite frigid temperatures – before collapsing, sleeping, and then recovering.
wo8Xo TIL that an expert parachutist fell to his death when he jumped from a plane, without realizing that he wasn’t wearing a parachute