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TIL Elton John's moving song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" was written as a tribute to a friend who talked him out of suicide and helped him come to terms with his homosexuality. The friend was musician Long John Baldry more well known nowadays for voicing Dr. Robotnik in the 90s Sonic cartoon.

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W7xO4 TIL In 1991, moonfish jellyfish travelled into outer space on the Space Shuttle Columbia.The jellyfish multiplied in space. When they came back to Earth, the scientists discovered that the space-born jellyfish couldn't figure out how to deal with gravity.
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kJPL1 TIL that in October of 2008, Porsche inflicted the “mother of all short squeezes” on Volkswagen (VW) by announcing how much stock it had “after it became clear that there are by far more short positions in the market than expected".
ERlX TIL the name ‘Tank’ for armoured vehicles originated as a code word describing the vehicles as water carriers (or water tanks), to confuse enemy spies and keep their creation hidden. Water carries wasn’t used as this would have been abbreviated to W.C, another name for toilets.
GYGQ TIL NASA set out to disprove the claims of the “Mayan Apocolypse”, and did.