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TIL that during the last few months for jazz legend John Coltrane’s death, he would take the sax out of his mouth during performances and start beating his chest, chanting, yodeling, and screaming. Sometimes Coltrane felt like even his sax couldn’t truly express what he wanted to say.

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nekpP TIL FEMA tweeted a 1-800 phone sex talk line when they meant to tweet a 1-888 Hurricane Irma helpline. They soon tweeted the correct one, but some hurricane victims had already dialed in to hear: “Welcome to America’s hottest talk line. Guys, hot ladies are waiting to talk to you."
D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building
XEE68 TIL the United States bombed North Korea between 1950 to 1953, killing 1 in 5 of North Korea's population, leveling every significant town and city along with hydroelectric and irrigation dams, causing massive flooding and destruction of crops
oBkrW TIL that in the harsh winter of 2008, the town of Ankeny, Iowa used expired garlic salt to help thaw the roads, keeping several tons from going to a landfill.
kO7xE TIL bananas can ripen avocados. Ripe bananas contain a natural plant hormone called ethylene, which triggers ripening in mature fruit. If both are placed in a paper bag, the paper bag traps the ethylene gas that’s produced by the fruit and speeds up the ripening process.