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TIL: That anesthesiologists, neuroscientists and researchers dont really know how anesthesia works.

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78LNx TIL of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra which was founded as an piece of comedic performance art, and so was open to anyone, regardless of musical training or proficency in their chosen instrument. They achieved a level of fame in the 1970s due to their recordings of popular classics.
8eKPV TIL many restaurants in France that are frequented by American tourists try to mislead customers into tipping, even though service is covered under the meal bill.
AdJa TIL -In the 1880s, a baboon worked as a signalman for nine years on a south african railroad. He was paid in brandy and never made a mistake.
8Dm4 TIL that there is a punctuation mark called an “interrobang”. It is the name given to “?!”.
woLjY TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.