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TIL an 'audiophile' once spent $10K to build his own 40-ft utility pole on his backyard just to listen to 'purer music'

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woZrE TIL that perpetual stew is a dish, which consists of different types of ingredients cooked in a pot. It can be cooked for decades by adding more ingredients and liquid frequently as well as heating it consistently.
aNab TIL the last year the United States went without any deaths in a school shooting was 1981
wl81 TIL a 2009 Oxford study on SSRIs found that SSRI antidepressants caused almost all participants to feel less empathy, sympathy, and positive emotions. Some reported feeling suicidal due to the SSRI emotional numbness and one began to self-harm in an effort to feel emotion.
ne1bY TIL When recording with Bowie in Berlin, Brian eno would use whatever loose change he had in his pocket to buy a U-Bahn subway ticket to however far that cash would take him, and then spend the day exploring there. Bowie says they took that approach to recording the album
9YgLm TIL Abraham Lincoln's assassination helped to popularize travel by train due to the amount of press and exposure Lincoln's funeral train received. Up until then, most Americans had never seen a passenger train.