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TIL some hospitals will fake CPR for the sake of a family

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oRmG8 TIL Margaret Thatcher had a habit of marking her territory by swinging her handbag around in meetings, leading to the term "handbagging", a term that made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary
0nYA TIL that if you have a kidney stone and you ride Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad then you have a 70% chance at passing the kidney stone.
x64kk TIL Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through our atmosphere and is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air
Wkvwd TIL that a Canadian study performed on university students suggested that simply WEARING a police-style uniform may alter one's attention towards people with low socio-economic status.
e0mr5 TIL raindrops on Saturn's largest moon, Titan (the only other known world with seasonal rainfall) would be twice as big as raindrops on Earth and would fall as slow as snowflakes. Also, they're made of liquid methane, not water.