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TIL that John Mulaney’s substance abuse was once so bad, his college therapist refused to end a session until he called an outpatient rehab program to get help.

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e0X6k TIL left-handers can have poor handwriting posture because they write with a “hooked” style when trying to copy how right-handers write, but if they position the paper to their left with the bottom-right edge angled down, then their wrist and arm straightens for neater and more comfortable writing.
lokbr TIL about the city of Cahokia; a Native American (Mississippian) city built on the Mississippi which had over 140 hand-built earthen mounds, more people than contemporaneous London, a copper smelting workshop and 5 concentric circles of posts which line up with the sun on equinoxes and solstices.
695Wl TIL of Eddie Futch who trained four of the five fighters (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick), who defeated Muhammad Ali.
rNWmx TIL - in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band
Bg78y TIL Amazon Alexa comes equipped with a library of 42 different fart sounds