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TIL Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is banned in karaoke bars in the Philippines because several singers have been killed for ‘butchering’ the song.

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9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.
R5MP7 TIL Texans Eat Pickles at the Movie Theater, and Many Are Surprised To Learn No One Else Does
wBN6 TIL there is a 5000 year old refrigeration technique using only principles of evaporation and humidity that can be produced with basic pottery, sand, a rag, and water.
w5V1 TIL Dr. Martin A. Couney saved thousands of infants by an unorthodox method of putting incubators of prematurely born babies on display. While technically being a carnival show on Coney Island, the treatment of babies was ethically sound and paid for itself. He made the incubator what it is today.
R5nR8 TIL Umetaro Suzuki extracted thiamine (which he named Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910 but his paper on the subject was poorly translated and ultimately ignored in the West. In 1912 Kazimierz Funk extracted the same substance and named it Vitamine.