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TIL weathervanes point to where the wind is coming FROM, not the direction it’s blowing.

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pYarA TIL that music streaming sites are basically aggregating cloud services like Dropbox with no connection to musical labels or artists
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WkNZY TIL that Doctor Min Chiu Li was fired from the NIH in the 1950s because he gave chemotherapy to patients even after their tumors appeared to be gone. After firing him, the NIH discovered the long-term survival rates for his patients were far superior to conventional treatments.
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