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TIL Joshua Bell a star violinist who could sell out a theatre in Boston with seats averaging around $100, could hardly attract a dozen of people when he played in a subway in Washington DC.

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YpK5d TIL there is a LOT of evidence for life after death. The University of Virginia Medical School has a Division of Perceptual Studies that researches this issue (among others). Researchers there gave a talk in 2017 entitled “Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA”
AD5Za TIL I learned that free internet porn is largely the work of Fabian Thylmann who bought the sites and changed the business model from fee based to ad based revenue.
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
N7XB6 When you have an entire planet to explore, how do you decide where to land the rover? There’s no wrong place to start, according to planetary geologist Bethany Ehlmann. Anywhere on the planet, there's always something new to learn from a rover expedition.
R7769 TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake