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TIL spit and condensed water accumulate in brass instruments and need to be drained regularly. Tumpets have "water keys" for this purpose.

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YoaA TIL the English language capitalizes the pronoun ‘I’ because it looks too small when it’s in lowercase.
lmx1 TIL that Robin Williams paid a surprise visit to a paralyzed Christopher Reeve (Superman), just before the latter was scheduled for an operation; Robin showed up in a yellow gown pretending to be an eccentric Russian proctologist and said he was going to perform a rectal exam on him. Reeve laughed.
nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!
vP61r TIL that heroin is used routinely used in clinical practice in the UK and that this is something unique to the UK.
40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.