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TIL Neil Young is developing a new audio format called Pono, which “aims are to confront the compressed audio inferiority that MP3s offer”, “to present songs as they first sound during studio recording sessions”

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GGK5 TIL that in 1996, a small town in Utah mistakenly booked the band “Rage Against the Machine” causing a community uproar and inevitably a ban on concerts – Footloose style.
QWyd TIL that the word “galaxy” literally means “milky way,” so the milky way galaxy is the “milky way milky way.”
WGk9 TIL In 2009, Oklahoman cops tasered an 86-year old disabled woman in her bed for taking a ‘more aggressive stance’. There made sure she would not resist further by stepping on her oxygen line until she couldn’t breathe.
6KR7 TIL: There is a competitive sport called joggling that combines jogging and juggling
kJ0b1 TIL the annual probability of an obese person attaining normal weight was 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with morbid obesity.