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TIL there is a medical term for the head rush you get from standing up too fast; 'Orthostatic Hypotension'

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69E97 TIL - JS Bach's son (JC) taught Mozart and is considered his only "true" teacher
GWAg TIL Almost one third of U.S. teenagers have texted full-nudes of themselves and could be charged with creation and distribution of child pornography
kORbE TIL about "baseball rubbing mud". Invented by a third base coach for the Athletics and now in widespread and required use by the MLB it is harvested by a single man in denim cutoffs and disintegrating sneakers. It's source, a closely guarded secret, is located "somewhere" in the Delaware River.
Y7aXA TIL JP Morgan bailed out banks in 1907 but a severe recession occured anyway. Nelson Aldrich, a powerful senator with close ties to Morgan, led a mission to Europe in 1908 to study the workings of the central banks in England, France and Germany. The Federal Reserve was created a short time later
kLK5 TIL there is an island in Norway that lies at 68° north - well within the Arctic circle - that has an extreme temperature anomaly. Summers are warm and winter temperatures rarely pass below the freezing point.