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TIL Raphael died after having excessive sex with his mistress

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wLk9P TIL the phrase "Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass" used to be literal. The practice was thought to revive people who were passed out or drowned. Equipment for the procedure was placed near waterways just as defibrillators are today.
v1Enr TIL 29 years before Chenobyl, another lesser known nuclear disaster occurred in Kyshtym. Records are rare, but it seems some 10,000 people were evacuated and speculation that some 6000-8000 died
8aK7G TIL that Hubei Province in China, which has Wuhan as its capital, is home to about 58.5MM people. That's almost as many as California and New York state combined, living in 71,800 sq miles, or roughly 1.3 New Yorks.
W717Y TIL that Ween’s 1997 album “The Mollusk” was a great inspiration to Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg due to its underwater theme. In 1997, Hillenburg told Ween the baseline ideas of Spongebob, and asked for a song. The band wrote “Loop de Loop” for Hillenburg, later used in a SpongeBob episode.
J1dOV TIL that on Monday, August 24, 2015 world stock markets were down substantially, wiping out all gains made in 2015. With this plunge, an estimated $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion) had been wiped off the books on global markets since June 3.