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TIL: About Philly Mignon, an album by jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones released in 1977.

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Zem4 TIL there is a 5 minute survey that predicts suicide risk in the person polled with a ~66% accuracy for 6 future weeks. It is called the “Hopelessness Scale”… and is exclusively available for around $60 from Pearson, a text book company that hyper-aggressively defends the survey’s copyright.
b9PyZ TIL that the three men who developed penicillin as the first antibiotic were first given knighthoods (Sir) and then won a Nobel Prize and THEN one was even made a baron - a rare honour that even outranks "Sir".
mg7y TIL of Coffee Flour. Made from Coffee cherries, the discarded fruit surrounding the coffee bean. Gluten free, high in fibre and protein, and produced from a source which is currently being discarded at a rate around 75% of production.
4Xlww TIL, the city of Auburn Hills, Michigan which is famous for their now-demolished Palace sports arena started off as Pontiac Township which was near the city of Pontiac, and it was originally intended to be renamed Pontiac Heights before the city of Pontiac disapproved that decision.
EgMeo TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.