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TIL - Appetite control in the human body is so complex that there are ~20 appetite inhibitory hormones and 6 appetite stimulatory hormones all acting to maintain our satiety. This complex biology has made it exceptionally difficult to formulate drug interventions for appetite control.

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GYlO4 TIL Big Cypress, a music festival held by the band Phish on News Years Eve 1999 in to 2000, had 85,000 in attendance making it the largest Millennium Eve concert that night. This is the longest Phish concert ever, culminating in a 7.5 hour long second set from midnight to sunrise New Year's Day.
LQM4p TIL that the line "they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night" in Bruce Springsteen's classic hit song "Atlantic City" is in reference to slain Philadelphia mob boss Phillip "Chicken Man" Testa. Testa was assassinated by his own underboss Peter Casella, using a nail bomb as the weapon.
p7G8 TIL that two zebras died of hunger in a zoo in Palestine and were replaced with donkeys painted with black and white stripes.
69yZm TIL about the Meat-Shaped Stone - a Chinese sculpture carved from banded jasper during the Qing Dynasty and made to look like Dongpo pork - a popular Chinese dish.
VZom TIL Oxygen is by far the most common element in the earth’s crust comprising almost half its weight.