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TIL Keurig pod inventor regrets having invented it and doesn’t own one.

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Y7jZ TIL that former journalist Solomon Shereshevsky appeared to have no limits on his ability to memorize, memorizing poems in foreign languages (which he could not understand) within minutes and recalling them verbatim years later; however he could not recognize faces because they were so “changeable.”
GAvAJ TIL actress June Lockhart (the mom from Lassie) embraced rock music and she spontaneously listened to music which was produced by emerging rock bands. She was a noted David Bowie fan who frequently kept a picture of him in her wallet.
5YERk TIL that Scajaquada Creek, a waterway in Western New York, runs through a six mile long tunnel beneath the city of Buffalo, NY
W7VK8 TIL: FDA's Shocking Drug Approval Loopholes Discovered the FDA's drug approval loopholes in "Truth is an Illusion" by Aretha Gonyora. "Accelerated approval" & "breakthrough therapy" designations can lead to insufficient safety testing—troubling when lives are at stake.
QBpa TIL that Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin is seen as a patriot by many Indians. This has led to attempts to create a glowing documentary of him, install busts in his likeness in political buildings, and even build a temple in his honor.