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TIL that many people do not have voluntary control over the muscles to keep their eustachian tubes open, for example to avoid popping in an airplane

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nePkW TIL of Mandeville's 1714 story of a thriving bee community that decides to live by virtue instead of self-interest - and collapses. Adam Smith incorporated this idea of 'private vice, public good' into his work, and today its a foundational principle of Capitalism and Western Civilisation.
69k8 TIL prescription drug bottles are translucent orange to resemble old amber glass bottles that were common in apothecaries.
GrM7 Til that sting will earn $2000 a day because his song was used on puff daddy’s “ill be missing you” without his permission.
DeYr TIL that from 1998-2006 the highest finish by a rider in the Tour de France not implicated in doping is 4th.
L1lm TIL that the Montreal bus system has a “between stops” service, allowing women traveling alone late at night to stop between designated bus stops.