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TIL NSYNC, one of the most well-known and influential boy bands of all time, only had 3 studio albums. They were also only together for less than a decade.

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lw1K TIL You are “overdriving your headlights” when you go so fast that your stopping distance is farther than you can see with your headlights.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
Wv0N TIL that in ancient China, an emperor’s last line of defense was a small Pekingese dog literally hidden up his sleeve, that would viciously attack on command.
LPov TIL Frito-Lay created an environmentally friendly 100% compostable chip bag but had to remove it from the market because people complained that it was too noisy.
jJGj TIL there is a ‘ghost town’ in New York City - “The Hole”, an area of Queens built too close to the water table, is mostly abandoned, usually flooded, and was once a body-dumping ground for the mafia.