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TIL that even though people say "pull out all the stops" to mean doing it extravagantly, it originates from the pipe organ. Stops (think of plugs) were put in the pipes to adjust volume. To really let her rip and be as loud as possible, one would pull out all the stops.

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VeDk TIL in 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive inside a box containing an air pump, a lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. Two plastic pipes provided her with outside air. Her kidnappers demanded and received a $500,000 ransom, and she was rescued three days later.
jNPgQ TIL that Annie Oakley first rose to fame at the age of 15 after beating a traveling sharpshooter, whom she later married.
JoBB TIL: Goats can eat poison ivy with no ill effects. Goats are rented out to clear parks, golf courses and historical sites.
Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.
PaVw TIL that a 14 year old black boy was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955.