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TIL "Save Me" by Aimee Mann is about Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall, NewsRadio)

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l7PVA TIL that water tasters were people who tasted a patient's urine in order to help diagnose diabetes, the term mellitus (honey) was added because of the urine's sweet flavor.
O0V7 TIL in 2003 a pallasite meteorite as old as the earth itself was found in China. It’s so beautiful a sliver can fetch millions at auction.
nowr TIL 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed was making up to $74,000 a day in the stock market by using internet message boards to manipulate prices. The Government eventually went after him, but he was able to keep half a million dollars of his gains.
grVAy TIL that in 2021, China instituted rules stating that cities with populations of less than 3 million people can't build skyscrapers taller than 492 ft, and for cities above 3 million, no new skyscrapers can be taller than 1,640 feet.
G875 TIL that the term “Pull out all the stops” refers to an Organ - you pull out stops to change the sound of the organ. Pulling out all the stops makes an amazing sound.