› added 3 weeks ago

7

TIL the song Baby Blue, released in the 70s, experienced a resurgence of popularity in 2013 when it was featured in Breaking Bad's final episode. Online streams increased in popularity immediately after the broadcast; and the song subsequently charted in the UK for the first time at No. 73.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6ErpJ TIL the first known use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball was in 1899, when Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin received an injection of crushed dog and guinea pig testicles
NXnNQ TIL Redlining is a discriminatory housing practice that started in the 1920s and is still affecting things today. This includes people who lived in the redlined neighborhoods having a life expectancy difference of up to 25 years from those who lived a mile away in a non-redlined neighborhood.
ppLp TIL of Michael Richards, who died in his art studio on 9/11, floor 92 WTC North, whose art focused on planes; including sculptures of airplanes piercing his own body.
V88D TIL the first monkeys in South America likely drifted from Africa on a floating island of vegetation
j6VgQ TIL that spoofing (finance) is when spoofers post a large number of limit orders on one side of the limit order book to make other market participants believe that there is pressure to sell or to buy the asset.