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TIL: Soap operas got their name because soap companies were the primary advertisers of radio dramas (target towards women).

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0wneL TIL that during the last few months for jazz legend John Coltrane’s death, he would take the sax out of his mouth during performances and start beating his chest, chanting, yodeling, and screaming. Sometimes Coltrane felt like even his sax couldn’t truly express what he wanted to say.
wKe6 TIL after refusing to abandon a dying comrade numerous times , Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pins from two grenades and calmly awaited the Viet Cong, holding one grenade in each hand. An action leading to his death and him being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
R57Ej Til that your body has a relatively constant total daily energy expenditure. It will allow temporarily elevated caloric burns but the more days that you increase your expenditure, it will normalize your daily expenditure by showing or shutting down other processes.
OyMX TIL: Gregory Sams, inventor of the Veggie Burger, had never eaten a real burger before.
VBBZQ TIL that financial institutions rent a room inside the New York Stock Exchange to place trading computers. If these computers are located even a few meters away from this room, they lose milliseconds of advantage on tradings.