› added 4 years ago

154

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.

Read more jazzwise.com

via reddit.com

W7EOo TiL that emotional support pigs exist. They're utilized in nursing homes, hospitals, and special-needs schools and have been provided to people facing autism, anxiety, and PTSD.
v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
lBV7 TIL there has been a National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, every year since 1900, where a hobo is crowned King (and sometimes Queen).
vyoB TIL If we’d put a giant mirror 10 lightyears away from Earth and looked through a telescope, we’d (theoretically) see 20 years into the past
5Vex9 TIL about "fordite", a jemstone - like material made out of disguarded enamel paint from the automotive industry. It was a popular setting for statement jewelry in the 1970's.