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TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.

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MRKK TIL in 2013, a NY Times Reporter discovered that a 1-liter saline IV bag (sterilized salt water) cost $.44 to $1.07 to produce. By the time it was billed to a patient, however, the cost increased between 100% and 1000%.
mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
OGPWR TIL there is a factory in Iran that makes US, British, and Israeli flags exclusively for burning during protests.
dAKQ TIL that during the recording of Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”, unexplained phenomena occurred. This all climaxed when the producer, Martin Birch, was involved in a car accident with a mini-bus transporting a group of nuns, after which he was presented with a repair bill for £666.
QNVpL TIL sex sneeze is a phenomenon characterized by sneezing during orgasm or sexual arousal. The person experiences sneezing as a result of sexual thoughts, arousal, intercourse, or orgasm. It may cause by existence of erectile tissue in the nose.